TY - BOOK AU - Grass, Günter TI - The Tin Drum SN - 9780099540656 U1 - 833.914 PY - 1993/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Pantheon Books, N2 - Acclaimed as the greatest German novel written since the end of World War II, The Tin Drum is the autobiography 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. Willfully stunting his growth at three feet for many years, wielding his tin drum and piercing scream as anarchistic weapons, he provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world ER -