The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

The full video of our discussion on " The Tin Drum " which took place on Saturday October 24 , 2020 , may be viewed here:
The Tin Drum Webinar

The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel )is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of Grass's Danziger Trilogie (Danzig Trilogy). It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the Palme d'Or, in the same year, and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film the following year.

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 in post-war Germany. This exuberant novel, written in a variety of styles, imaginatively distorts and exaggerates Grass’s personal experiences—the Polish-German dualism of Danzig, the creeping Nazification of average families, the attrition of the war years, the coming of the Russians, and the complacent atmosphere of West Germany’s postwar “economic miracle.”

The Arabic version of this book translated from the German by Hussain Al-Mozany was our book of the month in October 2020.