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| Genre/Form: | Historical fiction., Political fiction. |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Fiction |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Günter Grass |
| ISBN: | 067972575X : 9780679725756 |
| OCLC Number: | 20217959 |
| Notes: | Translation of: Die Blechtrommel. |
| Description: | 591 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Book one: Wide skirt -- Under the raft -- Moth and light bulb -- Photograph album -- Smash a little windowpane -- Schedule -- Rasputin and the alphabet -- Stockturm. Long-distance song effects -- Rostrum -- Shopwindows -- No wonder -- Good Friday fare -- Tapered at the foot end -- Herbert Truczinski's back -- Niobe -- Faith, hope, love -- Book two: Scrap metal -- Polish post office -- Card house -- He lies in Saspe -- Maria -- Fizz powder -- Special communques -- How Oskar took his helplessness to Mrs. Greff -- 165 lbs. -- Bebra's Theater at the Front -- Inspection of concrete, or barbaric, mystical, bored -- Imitation of Christ -- Dusters -- Christmas play -- Ant trail -- Should I or shouldn't I? -- Disinfectant -- Growth in a freight car -- Book three: Firestones and tombstones -- Fortuna North -- Madonna -- Hedgehog -- In the clothes cupboard -- Klepp -- On the fiber rug -- In the onion cellar -- On the Atlantic Wall, or Concrete external -- Ring finger -- Last streetcar, or adoration of a preserving jar -- Thirty -- Glossary. |
| Series Title: | Vintage international |
| Other Titles: | Blechtrommel. |
| Responsibility: | by Günter Grass ; translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II , The Tin Drum is the autobiography of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Willfully stunting his growth at three feet for many years, wielding his tin drum and piercing scream as anarchistic weapons, he provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world.
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