Günter Grass, 1959. Oskar Matzerath who chooses to stop growing at three. Magic-realist Nazi Germany.
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The Tin Drum is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass, the first book of his Danzig Trilogy. It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1980.