The Danzig Trilogy: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, Dog Years

Second printing [of the one-volume U.S. Edition]. A Helen & Kurt Wolff Book. 8vo. 1030pp. Full-bound red cloth in a cream white dust jacket printed in red & grey, w/ illus. by the author.

Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim (1961 through 1965).

A searing indictment of ordinary Germans' ready participation in the Nazi regime and their reluctance to address issues of personal responsibility and guilt in the immediate post-war era. In its citation, in awarding Grass the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy made special mention of the Danzig Trilogy's portrayal of "the forgotten face of history." A founding member of the Vergangenheitsbewältigung artistic movement, roughly translated as "coming to terms with the past."