Günter Grass

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war—each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Bitter and impassioned, The Tin Drum delivers a scathing dissection of Germany and Poland under the Nazis. On his third birthday, Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and...

At the end of the 1980s, a writer on a book tour, who very much resembles Grass, passes through East Germany and visits the Cathedral of Naumburg with its famous twelve donor statues. He invites the sculptor's models to dinner—and they come, not as ghosts, but as they were when alive in the thirteenth century. Toward the end of dinner,...

This book is a genuine tour de force - New York Times Book Review Gdansk 1989. A Polish woman, a gilding specialist, meets a German man, a professor in art history. A walk together in a graveyard gives rise to an ambition to establish a Cemetery of Reconciliation as a mark of the times and their spirit of unity... The...

Grass's landmark novel in a stunning new translation and with a new foreword by the author The Tin Drum With a new foreword by the author 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...