About This Novel
"The Tin Drum" is a masterpiece of novels by German writer and Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass, and one of the "Danzig Trilogy". The protagonist Oscar's father is German, and his maternal grandmother is the Kashubian, an ancient resident of the Danzig area. When Oscar was three years old, he discovered that his mother was having an affair with his cousin and decided not to grow taller. From his perspective, society and the people around him are weird and crazy. He beats the tin drum and uses his superpower of singing about broken glass to vent his indignation against the deformed society. Later, the girl Maria fell in love with him. After becoming pregnant, she married her father and gave birth to Oscar's son Kurt. Oscar accompanied the dwarf acrobatic troupe to visit the German soldiers. Three years later, the Soviet army captured Danzig, and his father, a Nazi, was shot dead... The novel narrates the dark history of Germany with black humor and absurd writing.
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