One character in this novel has a fascination for a large wooden anchor that he nicknames Niobe; that character is Herbert Truczinsk, who has a tattoo of a hieroglyphic on his back that fascinates the protagonist. The protagonist of this work has conflicting accounts of his defense of a polish post office. Roswitha Raguna becomes the lover of the protagonist in the second part of this work, when he works at a circus. Sister Dorothea Köngetter is the focus of the third part of this work, when she is the love interest of the protagonist. The protagonist of this novel is 
One character in this novel has a fascination for a large wooden anchor that he nicknames Niobe; that character is Herbert Truczinsk, who has a tattoo of a hieroglyphic on his back that fascinates the protagonist. The protagonist of this work has conflicting accounts of his defense of a polish post office. Roswitha Raguna becomes the lover of the protagonist in the second part of this work, when he works at a circus. Sister Dorothea Köngetter is the focus of the third part of this work, when she is the love interest of the protagonist. The protagonist of this novel is a patient at a mental hospital whose scream can be used as a weapon; his name is Oskar Matzerath, and he refuses to grow. For 10 points, name this novel which precedes Dog Years and Cat and Mouse in the Danzig Trilogy, a work by Gunther Grass.
One character in this novel has a fascination for a large wooden anchor that he nicknames Niobe; that character is Herbert Truczinsk, who has a tattoo of a hieroglyphic on his back that fascinates the protagonist.
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