Günter Grass
1) My century
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of intertwining stories, each with a differnt narrator, which combine to chronicle the major and minor, events, occurrences, developments, of the twentieth century.
2) The tin drum
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Physical Desc
591 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contemporary German novel, the subject of much controversy when it was first published in 1959, focuses on the years of Nazi control in Germany as seen through the eyes of an intelligent dwarf, masquerading as a retarded lunatic.
3) The tin drum
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
Chronicles Danzig in the 1920s/1930s and the life and times of Oskar Matzerath the son of a local dealer, a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth, he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses the society and his tin drum symbolizes his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighborhood, which stand for all passive...