The Tin Drum
Contributors: Ralph Manheim (Translator)
Publisher: Minerva
Published: 1997
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780749394752
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.