num_pages: 592
description: The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth century, was first published in 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its young author, Günter Grass, to the forefront of world literature. Grass created Oskar, the unreliable narrator, yet the story he tells reveals fundamental truths about human about love and betrayal, ecstasy and fear. Moreover, the story is so intense, so moving, in a sense so miraculous, the reader wants to believe it, even knowing that it comes from a delusional man who describes physically impossible events. Oskar is a mentally disturbed man whose story can't be trusted, but who suffered through tragic events that would drive anyone mad, and who arrived at a better understanding of life than most "sane" people will ever know. Günter Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
language: English
title: Tin Drum
titlecomplete: 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: 43259
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: Secker & Warburg