Peeling the Onion

Gunter 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.

Title: Peeling the Onion

Author: Gunter Grass

ISBN: 9780099507598

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Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Publication Date: 2008-06-05

Number of Pages: 432

Weight: 0.5399 kg

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 Tin 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 *