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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 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 Grass's profound and moving memoir [has] an unforgettable power, and it is not just the significance of his experiences, but the virtuosity of his writing which elevates Peeling the Onion over any memoir published in recent years Daily Telegraph

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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G nter 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.

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