WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR AND A NEW TRANSLATION BY BREON MITCHELL

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.

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• A new translation by award-winning translator Breon Mitchell
• With a new foreword by Günter Grass