Description: "When Gnter Grass publishedThe Tin Drumin 1959, it was as if German literature had been granted a new beginning after decades of linguistic and moral destruction.Within the pages of this, his first novel, Grass re-created the lost world from which his creativity sprang: Danzig, his home town, as he remembered it from the years of his infancy before the catastrophe of war.Here he comes to grips with the enormous task of reviewing contemporary history by recalling the disavowed and the forgotten: the victims, losers, and lies that people wanted to forget because they had once believed in them.The unforgettable Oskar Matzerath is an intellectual whose critical approach is childishness, a one-man carnival, dadaism in action in everyday German provincial life just when this small world becomes involved in the sanity of the great world surrounding it.It is not too audacious to assume thatThe Tin Drumwill become one of the enduring literary works of the twentieth century." -- The Swedish Academy, awarding Gnter Grass the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1999

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