The Tin Drum
Grass's best-known work is "The Tin Drum" ("Die Blechtrommel"), published in 1959 (and adapted as a film of the same name by director Volker Schlöndorff in 1979). It was followed in 1961 by "Cat and Mouse" ("Katz und Maus"), a novella, and in 1963 by the novel "Dog Years" ("Hundejahre").