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Key facts
- Author
- Günter Grass
- Original title
- Die Blechtrommel
- Translator
- Ralph Manheim, Breon Mitchell
- Cover artist
- Günter Grass
- Language
- German
- Series
- Danzig Trilogy
- Genre
- Magic realism
- Publisher
- Hermann Luchterhand Verlag
- Publication place
- West Germany
- Followed by
- Cat and Mouse
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced [diː ˈblɛçˌtʁɔml̩] ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Tin Drum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.