num_pages: 565
description: The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Gunter Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his retarded childhood fantastically counterpoints the accumulating horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.
language: English
title: The Tin Drum
titlecomplete: The Tin Drum
characters: Anna Koljaiczek Bronski, Jan Bronski, Alfred Matzerath, Agnes Koljaiczek, Oskar Matzerath, Bruno Munsterberg, Joseph Koljaiczek
genres: Fiction, War, Magical Realism, German Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Germany, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 43257
places: Düsseldorf, Gdańsk, Danzig, Germany, Poland
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 Books