Title:: [[The Tin Drum]] Authors:: [[Günter Grass]] Tags:: #fiction Read:: [[2024-07-23]] Instagram :: https://www.instagram.com/jeronimo_ficus/p/C9zgBITx2b0/ ## Editions - Edition:: [[HarperVia]], 2009, Breon Mitchell Translation - Original Copyright:: 1959 - Pages:: 563 ## Purchase * Bookshop.org:: https://bookshop.org/a/94437/9780547339108 ## Annotations I’ve had the Manheim translation of The Tin Drum sitting on my shelf for 25 years. Finally decided to give it a go, and then a few chapters in I realized the Mitchell translation existed, so picked that up and it’s the one I finished. This is a novel I think deserving a more proper reading than I could give it. [#life](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/life/) is [#busy](https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/busy/) and I spent over a month chipping away at this, not because of lack of interest, just time, focus, and energy. I recommend this if you can give it your full attention.  All that being said, it’s an epic story told around a character, Oskar, that you won’t soon forget.