The Tin Drum
Publisher: Vintage
Published: February 5, 2004
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780099466048
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.