The tin drum
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Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
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Book
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ix, 577 pages ; 24 cm.
Lexile measure:
1220L
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One of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental institution. Matzerath provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world. In this edition, Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator and scholar, draws from a wealth of detailed scholarship to produce a translation that is more faithful to Grass's style and rhythm than the 1959 translation, restoring omissions and reflecting the complexity of the original work. After more than sixy years, The Tin Drum has, if anything, gained in power and relevance. All of Grass's amazing evocations are still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, the indomitable drummer, his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek, his mother, Agnes, Alfred Matzerath and Jan Bronski, his presumptive fathers, Oskar's midget friends-Bebra, the great circus master and Roswitha Raguna, the famous somnambulist, Sister Scholastica and Sister Agatha, the Right Reverend Father Wiehnke, the Greffs, the Schefflers, Herr Fajngold, all Kashubians, Poles, Germans, and Jews-waiting to be discovered and re-discovered.
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Street Date:
0910
Language:
English
ISBN:
0151014167, 9780151014163
Lexile measure:
1220

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Translation of: Die Blechtrommel.
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APA Citation (style guide)

Grass, G., & Mitchell, B. (2009). The tin drum. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)

Grass, Günter, 1927-2015 and Breon. Mitchell. 2009. The Tin Drum. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)

Grass, Günter, 1927-2015 and Breon. Mitchell, The Tin Drum. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

MLA Citation (style guide)

Grass, Günter and Breon Mitchell. The Tin Drum. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.

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