num_pages: 592
description: A dwarf drummer found guilty of a crime he did not commit writes his memoirs from a mental hospital in postwar Germany.
language: English
title: The Tin Drum
titlecomplete: The Tin Drum
characters: Agnes Koljaiczek, Oskar Matzerath, Alfred Matzerath, Joseph Koljaiczek, Jan Bronski, Anna Koljaiczek Bronski, Bruno Munsterberg
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Classics, German Literature, Nobel Prize, Germany, War, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 43243
places: Poland, Gdańsk, Düsseldorf, Germany, Danzig
series: Die Danziger Trilogie
awards: awardedAt: -189360000000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Ralph Manheim, awardedAt: -252432000000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Schlegel-Tieck Prize
category: Breon Mitchell, awardedAt: -378662400000
name: Preis der Gruppe 47
publisher: Vintage