Peeling the onion

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Title:

Peeling the onion

Author:

Grass, Günter, 1927-2015.

ISBN:

9780099507598

Personal Author:

Grass, Günter, 1927-2015.

Uniform Title:

Beim Häuten der Zwiebel. English

Publication Information:

London : Vintage, 2008.

Physical Description:

pages

General Note:

Originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2007.

Abstract:

'Peeling the Onion' is an honest memoir that evokes Günter Grass' modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece, 'The Tin Drum' in Paris.

Personal Subject:

Grass, Günter, 1927-2015.

Subject Term:

Authors, German -- 20th century -- Biography.

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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 G nter Grass' finest works.

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