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The Tin Drum

by Gunter Grass · 1959

Literary Fiction · ranked #219 in category

Oskar Matzerath, born in Danzig in 1924, decides at age three never to grow up and beats his tin drum obsessively, watching the rise of Nazism from below adult eye level. Grass's Booker Prize-winning novel is one of the 20th century's great satirical novels — grotesque, comic and devastating — told from the unreliable perspective of a wilfully stunted narrator.

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The verdict

Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1959 · 1950s
Author
Gunter Grass
Standing
Essential Read

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