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The Tin Drum

The Tin Drum

Author(s): Gunnar Staalesen, Günter Grass

Location(s): Gdansk, Poland

Genre(s): Historical, Fiction

Era(s): Post WW2

On 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.

Set in Grass’s hometown of Danzig (now Gdansk in Poland) and the wider region of Eastern Pomerania…

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