The Tin Drum

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The Tin Drum

Cover of the first German edition
Author	Günter Grass
Original title	Die Blechtrommel
Translator	Ralph Manheim, Breon Mitchell
Cover artist	Günter Grass
Language	German
Series	Danzig Trilogy
Genre	Magic realism
Publisher	Hermann Luchterhand Verlag
Publication date	1959
Publication place	West Germany
Published in English	1961
Pages	576
OCLC	3618781
Dewey Decimal	833.914
Followed by	Cat and Mouse

The Tin Drum (German: Die Blechtrommel, pronounced [diː ˈblɛçˌtʁɔml̩] ^ⓘ) 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.

To "beat a tin drum" means to create a disturbance in order to bring attention to a cause.^[1][2][3]