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The Tin Drum

"When Oskar Matzerath is three years old and three feet tall, he decides to stop growing. Clutching his red and white tin drum, the midget taps out the rhythms of what he sees and hears rather than speaking. Now 30 years old and confined to a mental institution, Oskar begins writing his autobiography. Peopled with peasants and entrepreneurs, Nazis and priests, Oskar's story becomes a startling, often bizarre, reflection of Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s."--Container.

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  • ""When Oskar Matzerath is three years old and three feet tall, he decides to stop growing. Clutching his red and white tin drum, the midget taps out the rhythms of what he sees and hears rather than speaking. Now 30 years old and confined to a mental institution, Oskar begins writing his autobiography. Peopled with peasants and entrepreneurs, Nazis and priests, Oskar's story becomes a startling, often bizarre, reflection of Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s."--Container."@en
  • "The autobiography of Oskar Matzerath, a dwarfish hunchback detained in a mental hospital, convicted of a murder he did not commit. On the day of his third birthday, Oskar received his first tin drum, and from then on it was his means of expression, allowing him to draw forth memories from his eccentric past as well as judgments about the horrors he observed through the long nightmare of the Nazi era."@en
  • "A novel of 20th century Germany as seen through the eyes of Oskar Matzerath, a dwarf who deliberately stopped growing at age three."@en
  • "The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth century.This is the story of Oskar Matzerath, a dwarfish hunchback detained in a mental hospital, convicted of a murder he did not commit. From his third birthday when he received a tin drum, it has become the means of his expression, allowing him to draw forth memories from his past as well as from the Nazi era. Oskar's imaginative distortion and exaggeration of history reveals a startlingly true portrayal of the human situation."
  • "A man tells the story of his life as anarchist, artist and individualist, with the aid of his tin drum."@en
  • "Confined to a sanitarium in the early 1950s, Oskar Matzerath begins to chronicle his life in Danzig before the Second World War. Fond of his prized possession, a tin drum, Oskar protects it ferociously and maintains a stable childhood. However, his father's involvement in the Nazi party and the events of the Holocaust begin to take their toll on Oskar's fragile, young mind."@en
  • "After fifty years, The Tin Drum has, if anything, gained in power and relevance. All of Grass's amazing evocations are still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, the indomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother, Agnes; Alfred Matzerath and Jan Bronski, his presumptive fathers; Oskar's midget friends - Bebra, the great circus master and Roswitha Raguna, the famous somnambulist; Sister Scholastica and Sister Agatha, the Right Reverend Father Wiehnke; the Greffs, the Schefflers, Herr Fajngold, all Kashubians, Poles, Germans, and Jews - waiting to be discovered and re-discovered. -Dust jacket."
  • "This is the story of Oskar Matzerath, a dwarfish hunchback detained in a mental hospital, convicted of a murder he did not commit. From his third birthday when he received a tin drum, it has become the means of his expression, allowing him to draw forth memories from his past as well as from the Nazi era. Oskar's imaginative distortion and exaggeration of history reveals a startlingly true portrayal of the human situation."
  • "This is the story of Oskar Matzerath, a dwarfish hunchback detained in a mental hospital, convicted of a murder he did not commit. From his third birthday when he received a tin drum, it has become the means of his expression, allowing him to draw forth memories from his past as well as from the Nazi era. Oskar's imaginative distortion and exaggeration of history reveals a startlingly true portrayal of the human situation."@en
  • ""The autobiography of Oskar Matzerath, a dwarfish hunchback detained in a mental hospital, convicted of a murder he did not commit. On the day of his third birthday, Oskar received his first tin drum, and from then on it was his means of expression, allowing him to draw forth memories from his eccentric past as well as judgments about the horrors he observed through the long nightmare of the Nazi era."--Container."@en
  • "Story about Oskar Matzerath, who at age three decides to stop growing. For the next two decades, during the Nazi reign in Eastern Europe, he remains frozen in size, suspended in the outraged innocence of childhood."@en

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  • "Political fiction"@en
  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en

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  • "The Tin Drum"@en
  • "The tin drum"
  • "The tin drum"@en
  • "The Tin Drum Library Edition"

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