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El tambor de hojalata (Spanish Edition) [Mass Market Paperback]

Günter Grass (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)


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November 30, 2000
On the day of his third birthday the main character, Oskar Matzerath, decides to stop growing. The same day he receives his first tin drum, which will be with him as he travels around Europe. He works as an artist's model, enrolls in a troupe of traveling musicians, deals in the black market, and becomes a leader of a group of anarchists. the drum will be the key to all Oskar's memories, even when some time after the war he is confined to a mental institution convicted of a murder he did not commit.

Blurb in Spanish:
El día de su tercer cumpleaños es un fecha determinante en la vida de Oscar, el pequeño que no quería crecer. No sólo es el día en que toma la decisión de dejar crecer, sino que recibe su primer tambor de hojalata, objeto que habrá de convertirse en compañero inseparable para el resto de sus días. La crítica mordaz, la ironía despiadada, el espectacular sentido del humor y la libertad creadora con que Günter Grass construye esta obra maestra convierten a "El tambor de hojalata" en uno de los títulos más deatacados de la historia de la literatura.


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About the Author

Günter Grass (b. Danzing, Germany, 1927) is a novelist, poet, essayist, playwright, graphic artist, and the most celebrated and controvertial contemporary German writer. He received the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. His most recent release in Spanish is Mi siglo

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Punto de Lectura (November 30, 2000)
  • Language: Spanish
  • ISBN-10: 8495501368
  • ISBN-13: 978-8495501363
  • Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.5 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,363,780 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Read it slowly, May 29, 2001
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Antonio (Vienna Austria) - See all my reviews
This review is from: El tambor de hojalata (Spanish Edition) (Mass Market Paperback)
....Reading this book you realise the big distance between "exciting" to "amazing". And I have to say that I have been amazed. This is the first book I ever read of Günter Grass and his style left me speechless. There are (many) paragraphs that I re-read several times, not because of difficulties in understanding, but because of the undescriptable sensation I got. But style is not the only memorable issue here. Seeing the world through Oskar's eyes makes you feel as if you were loking at yourself, being convinced that stupidness became so usual that you cannot distinguish it anymore. Of course you will not like it if you are a fan of, let's say, Michael Crichton... This would be like comparing Beethoven with the Spice Girls!...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars un libro complicado, April 2, 2000
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Luis Méndez (Republica Dominicana) - See all my reviews
la historia de este libro es un poco increible, un nino de tres anos nos cuenta sus aventuras a traves de su vida desde la prision sanatorio donde se encuentra apegado a su tambor de hojalata y a las memorias que al tocarlo le llegan.no he podido entender que queria decir el autor con la alegoria. se referia a alemania que no podia crecer? o a algun personaje en particular? el libro le falta claridad y puede hasta llegar a ser canson y aburrido, ya que da muchas vueltas y no sabe uno para donde van las cosas. sus personajes parecen sin vida, frios, y el mismo amorio entre la madre de oscar y jan brosnski parece frio, lejano espero que otro lector llegue al final de la obra y a lo mejor le pueda encontrar el significado que me quede buscando... LUIS MENDEZ.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excelente libro!, May 11, 2002
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Me parece que es un libro increiblemente bien escrito, digno de un genio y que definitivamente vale la pena leer, probablemente las personas que no vivimos la primera y segunda guerra mundial no podamos comprender algunos acontecimientos, pero las impresiones del autor acerca de los hechos son puramente impresionistas, y tomando en cuenta la epoca en que fue escrito es una obra de arte!!
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