The Tin Drum
On his third birthday in Danzig, Oskar Matzerath decides to stop growing, throws himself down the cellar stairs to account for it, and keeps a tin drum and a scream that shatters glass. He drums his way through the rise of Nazism, the war and the German recovery at the height of a small child. History seen from below the table.
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Lineage
- responds to ↑ Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
- ↓ Haroun and the Sea of Stories
- ↓ Midnight's Children
- ↓ Cat and Mouse
- ↓ Dog Years
- ↓ The Rat
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