Volume 1 of 3 · Danzig Trilogy
The Tin Drum
- 591
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- about 11 h
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Editor’s note Günter Grass’s 1959 first novel is told from a bed in a mental hospital by Oskar Matzerath, born in Danzig in 1924, who decides at the age of three to stop growing. With a tin drum and a scream that shatters glass, he passes through the Nazi years, the war and the early West German republic. It opens the Danzig Trilogy. Volker Schlöndorff’s 1979 film shared the Palme d’Or and won the Oscar for best foreign-language film, and Grass received the Nobel Prize in 1999.
About the book
The Tin Drum is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.
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