The tin drum
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English German |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2009.
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| Item Description: | Translation of: Die Blechtrommel. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 582 p. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780151014163 0151014167 9780547339108 (pbk.) |
| Author Notes: | His first novel, The Tin Drum, was published in 1959. It was adapted into a film and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1979. His other works included Cat and Mouse, Dog Years, From the Diary of a Snail, The Flounder, The Rat, and Crabwalk. He also wrote a memoir entitled Peeling the Onion. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. He was also a political activist and liberal provocateur. He advocated for environmental conservation, debt relief for poor countries, and generous policies regarding political asylum. He died on April 13, 2015 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) |
