Peeling the Onion

Informationen zum Autor Günter 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. Klappentext PEELING THE ONION is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer's modest upbringing in Danzig! his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians and concludes with the writing of his masterpiece! The Tin Drum! in Paris. While living as an artist in Berlin with his first wife Anna! a ballet dancer! he started to concentrate on writing poetry. It was after the couple moved to Paris that the first sentence of the novel he had been determined to write and that would make his reputation came to him: 'Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital'. PEELING THE ONION is the story of a remarkable life and is! without question! one of Günter Grass' finest works. Zusammenfassung 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 Gunter Grass' finest works. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum.

Product details

• Authors: Gunter Grass, Günter Grass
• Assisted by: Michael H. Heim (Translation), Michael Henry Heim (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.06.2008
• EAN: 9780099507598
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950759-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 121 mm x 200 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Ballantine Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Ballantine Paperbacks
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Autobiographien (div.), Grass, Günter, Germany, Memoirs, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000