The Tin Drum
1959 · 592 pages
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.
★ 8.3
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The Berlin Stories
1945 · 207 pages
Sally Bowles, the English cabaret singer who became the heart of Cabaret, sings badly in a Berlin nightclub while Isherwood's narrator calls himself a camera, shutter open, recording the city's slide into Nazism.
★ 6.2
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
2000 · 704 pages
Smuggled out of occupied Prague in a coffin with the Golem, Joe Kavalier lands in Brooklyn and invents a superhero with his cousin. Chabon makes comics their one weapon against Hitler.
★ 5.5