The Tin Drum (1000 Books to Read)

This is a very strange book. It is about a man guy who stays at three years old even though he is 30. 

It says a lot about Germany during the rise of the Nazis.

I found this explanation helpful.

https://allegoryexplained.com/the-tin-drum/

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

James Mustich

Narrated from an insane asylum by Oskar Matzerath, a thirty-year-old who has not grown an inch since the age of three, when—in possession of a tin drum his mother had given him and all the faculties of an adult, or so he claims—he determined not to grow beyond the three feet he then stood. Anything but innocent, this childlike figure who can, and frequently does, shatter glass with his voice, is the most unreliable of narrators, rendering the experience of Germans before, during, and after the Second World War as a kind of Brothers Grimm story in which both “once upon a time” and “happily ever after” have disappeared; what’s left is an intimate pageant of primal emotions, grotesque characters, and bizarre incidents that enchant the reader’s imagination with a kind of wicked glee. Like the most indelible fairy tale, Grass’s masterpiece leaves images rooting around in our minds that are ominous and enduring, fraught with a meaning we can neither evade nor explain.