Book · 1959 · Fiction

The Tin Drum

Name: The Tin Drum
Author: Gunter Grass

Mariner Books · 592 pages

★ 8.3 editorial score

Oskar decides on his third birthday to stop growing, keeps his tin drum, and screams glass to pieces while the Nazis take Danzig. Grass forced postwar Germany to look at itself through him.

Genre

Magic realism Picaresque Anti-war

Medium

Novel

Subject

Nazis World War II War

Setting

Poland

Time

1959Depicts World War IIDepicts 1940s

Related books

Other volumes that share a subject, a setting, or an author with this one.

Fiction

The Berlin Stories

Christopher Isherwood

1945 · 207 pages

Another book aboutSubject·Nazis

Fiction · Historical fiction

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Michael Chabon

2000 · 704 pages

Another book aboutSubject·Nazis

Fiction · Black comedy

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

1961 · 524 pages

Another book ofGenre·Anti-war

Fiction · War novel

Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt Vonnegut

1969 · 215 pages

Another book ofGenre·Anti-war

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·World War II

Quote · 1941

“Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Film · 1998

Saving Private Ryan

Steven Spielberg

Quote · 1940

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

Winston Churchill