Peeling the Onion

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The memoir of Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer. Peeling the Onion is a searingly honest account of Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. It is a remarkable autobiography and, without question, one of G nter Grass' finest works. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum.

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An exquisitely constructed narrative... Peeling the Onion is a genuine masterpiece * Independent on Sunday *
A memoir of rare literary beauty * New Yorker *
As a writer, his influence still looms large, and Peeling the Onion is a reminder why. It has that same imaginative accuracy that made The Tin Drum a bestseller * The Times *
An ingenious but treacherous text that glides constantly between past and present, first and third person, memory and imagination * Evening Standard *
This subtle and expertly written book is really a memoir about forgetting -- Sebastian Faulks * Sunday Times *

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Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass's first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.