kevin_shepherd 's review for:

The Tin Drum by Günter Grass

5.0

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Nothing I write here is going to fully express how much I enjoyed this novel. Grass's Oskar is both heroic and villainous. He can shatter glass with his screams, manipulate minds with his drum, and seduce ladies with fizz powder. There are riddles of paternity, rites of passage, and an aroma of rancid butter coming from beneath his grandmother's layered skirts. This is jazz music and chopped onions and nurse fetishes. It's dwarfs and hunchbacks and rental Rottweilers. If you're in the mood for historical fiction intertwined with WTF?! I highly recommend The Tin Drum.