Germany

The Tin Drum

by Günter Grass

War & Conflict 1959

Summary

Oskar Matzerath, who decides at age three to stop growing, narrates the history of Danzig and Germany through the Nazi era from his bed in a psychiatric hospital. The opening novel of Grass's Danzig Trilogy won the Nobel Prize.

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Günter Grass

German novelist, poet, and Nobel laureate (1927–2015) best known for his Danzig Trilogy. A major figure in postwar German literature, he engaged relentlessly with Germany's Nazi past, though his own wartime service in the Waffen-SS remained secret until 2006.

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1959
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Günter Grass