# The Tin Drum

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- Book: [The Tin Drum](https://www.bookquiver.com/gunter-grass/the-tin-drum) ([The Tin Drum.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gunter-grass/the-tin-drum.md))
- Authors: [Günter Grass](https://www.bookquiver.com/gunter-grass)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Translated by: Ralph Manheim
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4818-010-3
- Published: 2017-06-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The publication of The Tin Drum in 1959 launched Günter Grass as an author of international repute. Bitter and impassioned, it delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925 to 1955 through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his retarded childhood fantastically counterpoints the accumulating horrors of Germany and Poland under the Nazis.