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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 Günter 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 *

Peeling the Onion

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 5 June 2008
      ISBN-13 9780099507598
      978-0099507598
      ISBN-10 0099507595
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      Autobiography: writers Memoirs ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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 Günter Grass'' finest works.

      By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum.



      Trade Review
      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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