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Item specifics

Condition
Good: A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. ...
Publication Date
2010-04-08
Pages
592
ISBN
9780547339108

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0547339100
ISBN-13
9780547339108
eBay Product ID (ePID)
73689378

Product Key Features

Book Title
Tin Drum
Number of Pages
592 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Military / World War II, Literary, Historical
Genre
Fiction, History
Author
Günter Grass
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Grade From
Ninth Grade
Dewey Decimal
833/.914
Table Of Content
Contents Introduction vii BOOK ONE The Wide Skirt 3 Under the Raft 13 Moth and Light Bulb 26 The Photo Album 38 Glass, Glass, Little Glass 50 The Schedule 61 Rasputin and the ABCs 72 Long-Distance Song Effects from the Stockturm 84 The Grandstand 96 Shop Windows 111 No Miracle 121 Good Friday Fare 133 Tapering toward the Foot 146 Herbert Truczinski's Back 155 Niobe 168 Faith Hope Love 181 BOOK TWO Scrap Metal 193 The Polish Post Office 205 House of Cards 219 He Lies in Saspe 229 Maria 241 Fizz Powder 253 Special Communiqués 264 Carrying My Helplessness to Frau Greff 274 Seventy-five Kilos 287 Bebra's Theater at the Front 299 Inspecting Concrete?--?or Mystical Barbaric Bored 310 The Imitation of Christ 327 The Dusters 341 The Christmas Play 352 The Ant Trail 364 Should I or Shouldn't I 377 Disinfectant 389 Growth in a Boxcar 400 BOOK THREE Flintstones and Gravestones 413 Fortuna North 428 Madonna 49 440 The Hedgehog 453 In the Wardrobe 466 Klepp 476 On the Coco Rug 487 The Onion Cellar 497 On the Atlantic Wall or Bunkers Can't Cast Off Concrete 512 The Ring Finger 527 The Last Tram or Adoration of a Canning Jar 538 Thirty 553 Translator's Afterword 565 Glossary 578
Synopsis
The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth century, was published in Ralph Manheim's outstanding translation in 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its young author to the forefront of world literature. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the original publication, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, along with Grass's publishers all over the world, is bringing out a new translation of this classic novel. Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator and scholar, has drawn from many sources: from a wealth of detailed scholarship; from a wide range of newly-available reference works; and from the author himself. The result is a translation that is more faithful to Grass's style and rhythm, restores omissions, and reflects more fully the complexity of the original work. After fifty years, THE TIN DRUM has, if anything, gained in power and relevance. All of Grass's amazing evocations are still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, the indomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother, Agnes; Alfred Matzerath and Jan Bronski, his presumptive fathers; Oskar's midget friends--Bebra, the great circus master and Roswitha Raguna, the famous somnambulist; Sister Scholastica and Sister Agatha, the Right Reverend Father Wiehnke; the Greffs, the Schefflers, Herr Fajngold, all Kashubians, Poles, Germans, and Jews--waiting to be discovered and re-discovered., One of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story 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. Matzerath provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world.In this edition, Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator and scholar, draws from a wealth of detailed scholarship to produce a translation that is more faithful to Grass's style and rhythm than the 1959 translation, restoring omissions and reflecting the complexity of the original work.After more than sixty years, The Tin Drum has, if anything, gained in power and relevance. All of Grass's amazing evocations are still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, the indomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother, Agnes; Alfred Matzerath and Jan Bronski, his presumptive fathers; Oskar's midget friends--Bebra, the great circus master and Roswitha Raguna, the famous somnambulist; Sister Scholastica and Sister Agatha, the Right Reverend Father Wiehnke; the Greffs, the Schefflers, Herr Fajngold, all Kashubians, Poles, Germans, and Jews--waiting to be discovered and re-discovered., One of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition., One of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story 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. Matzerath provides a profound yet hilarious perspective on both German history and the human condition in the modern world. In this edition, Breon Mitchell, acclaimed translator and scholar, draws from a wealth of detailed scholarship to produce a translation that is more faithful to Grass's style and rhythm than the 1959 translation, restoring omissions and reflecting the complexity of the original work. After more than sixty years, The Tin Drum has, if anything, gained in power and relevance. All of Grass's amazing evocations are still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, the indomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother, Agnes; Alfred Matzerath and Jan Bronski, his presumptive fathers; Oskar's midget friends--Bebra, the great circus master and Roswitha Raguna, the famous somnambulist; Sister Scholastica and Sister Agatha, the Right Reverend Father Wiehnke; the Greffs, the Schefflers, Herr Fajngold, all Kashubians, Poles, Germans, and Jews--waiting to be discovered and re-discovered.
LC Classification Number
PT2613.R338

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