The Tin Drum – Gunter Grass

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The books are collectively called the Danzig Trilogy and focus on the rise of Nazism and how World War II affected Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland), which was separated from Germany after World War I and became the Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig).[24] Dog Years (1965) is considered a sequel of sorts to The Tin Drum, as it features some of the same characters.[25] It portrays the area’s mixed ethnicities and complex historical background in lyrical prose that is highly evocative.[26]
The Tin Drum established Grass as one of the leading authors of Germany, and also set a high bar of comparison for all of his subsequent works, which were often compared unfavorably to this early work by critics.[27] Nonetheless, in the West Germany of the late ’50s and early ’60s the book could be controversial, and its “immorality” prompted the city of Bremen to revoke a prize it had bestowed upon him.[20] When Grass received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1999 the Nobel Committee stated that the publication of The Tin Drum “was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction”
1962. Used. Hardcover. Publisher’s grey boards, good, dust-jacket in a protective cellophane sleeve. The first English edition of the first book of the author’s ‘Danziger Trilogie’ (‘Danzig Trilogy’) Tight binding, no inscriptions pen marks a very very good copy overall See OUR OWN picture for quality control