Gunter Grass, born in Danzig in 1927, is Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer. He is a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Among his many works are The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999.
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 Tim 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