The publication of "The Tin Drum" in 1959 launched Gunther 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.
- ISBN10 0099483505
- ISBN13 9780099483502
- Publish Date 5 May 2005 (first published 12 March 1963)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 November 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Vintage
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 576
- Language English