The German Book Office's November book pick is the new translation of Günther Grass's The Tin Drum by Breon Mitchell, which was published last month (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26, 9780151014163/0151014167).
Originally published here in 1959 in a translation by Ralph Manheim, the novel by the Nobel laureate is of course a classic of modern literature. For the 50th-anniversary translation, Mitchell worked with translators around the world in an effort to reproduce the book's style and rhythm and added some "shocking, overtly sexual material" that was omitted in the earlier translation.