Peeling the Onion

Peeling the OnionIn this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize winning author G nter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen SS. Taken prisoner by American forces as he was recovering from

In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author G nter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS. Taken prisoner by American forces as he was recovering from shrapnel wounds, he spent the final weeks of the war in an American POW camp. After the war, Grass resolved to become an artist and moved with his first wife to Paris, where he began to write the novel that would make him famous. Full of the bravado of youth, the rubble of postwar Germany, the thrill of wild love affairs, and the exhilaration of Paris in the early fifties, Peeling the Onion--which caused great controversy when it was published in Germany--reveals Grass at his most intimate.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 06/02/2008
ISBN: 9780156035347
Pages: 425
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.20d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 07/13/2008 pg. 24