The Tin Drum
Publisher: Vintage
Published: May 5, 2005
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780099483502
First sentence: GRANTED : I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.