by Günter Grass · ALFAGUARA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420425085
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«El tambor de hojalata» is the novel by German writer Günter Grass, published by Alfaguara in hardback (660 pages, in Spanish).
Oskar Matzerath, a child who decides to stop growing at the age of three, observes the rise of Nazism and the Second World War with a critical and grotesque gaze. His tin drum becomes the symbol of an absurd resistance against petty-bourgeois society. Günter Grass combines realism, satire and surrealism in a narrative that spans several decades of German history.
First instalment of the Danzig Trilogy. Günter Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The work was originally published in 1959 under the title Die Blechtrommel.
For readers of contemporary European fiction, magical realism and historical novels.
Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.
