{"product_id":"the-tin-drum-reading-guide-edition-9780099540656","title":"The Tin Drum. Reading Guide Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long nightmare of the Nazi era to his anarchic adventures is post-war Germany.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiven Grass's close involvement with this new translation, it is fair to call this the definitive version of arguably the most important German novel of the post-war era. * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eGrass published his milestone of postwar literature 50 years ago, and the event is being celebrated with new translations\u003ci\u003e...\u003c\/i\u003eMitchell's excellent translation reveals the novel as a timeless masterpiece. * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eAt the ages of fourteen and fifteen, I had read \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations\u003c\/i\u003e twice - Dickens made me want to be a writer - but it was reading \u003ci\u003eThe Tin Drum\u003c\/i\u003e at nineteen and twenty that showed me how. It was Günter Grass who demonstrated that it was possible to be a \u003ci\u003eliving\u003c\/i\u003e writer who wrote with Dickens' full range of emotion and relentless outpouring of language. Grass wrote with fury, love, derision, slapstick, pathos - all with an unforgiving conscience. -- John Irving * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eFunny, macabre, disgusting, blasphemous, pathetic, horrifying, erotic, it is an endless delirium, an outrageous phantasmagoria in which dust from Goethe, Hans Andersen, Swift, Rabelais, Joyce, Aristophanes and Rochester dances on the point of a needle in the flame of a candle that was not worth the game * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eEncountering \u003ci\u003eThe Tin Drum\u003c\/i\u003e in the early sixties was like discovering a new planet, a reinvention of literature. It brings the exhilaration of discovery, linked with an enormous gratitude for the way in which Günter Grass makes the world a worthwhile place to be in, and living a worthwhile thing to do. He has forever pushed back - and opened up - our concept and awareness of what is real, and what is possible, and what we dare to dream about. * André Brink *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732281602391,"sku":"9780099540656","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099540656.jpg?v=1719996253","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-tin-drum-reading-guide-edition-9780099540656","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}