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Peeling the Onion

Günter Grass

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English
Vintage
01 August 2008
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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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 200mm,  Width: 121mm,  Spine: 31mm
Weight:   351g
ISBN:   9780099507598
ISBN 10:   0099507595
Pages:   432
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Peeling the Onion

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


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