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The tin drum

Grass, Günter, 1927-20152005
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Bitter & impassioned, this novel delivers a scathing dissection of the years from 1925-1955 through the eyes of Oskar, the dwarf whose manic beating on the toy of his childhood fantastically counterpoints the horrors of Germany & Poland under the Nazis.
Main title:
The tin drum / Günther Grass ; translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2005.
Collation:
567 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes:
This translation originally published: New York: Pantheon, 1961; London: Secker & Warburg, 1962.
ISBN:
9780099483502 (pbk)
Dewey class:
833.914
Local class:
F
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
681879
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