The Tin Drum

Name: The Tin Drum
Author: Günter Grass

by Günter Grass

Novel of German history through a mute boy who refuses to grow, narrated by drums

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Günter Grass

German novelist and Nobel laureate whose debut novel The Tin Drum is one of the masterpieces of postwar German literature. His work grapples with German guilt, memory, and the legacy of Nazism with savage wit and imagination.

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