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Peeling the Onion -- 2008 publication
Günter Grass
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Description for Peeling the Onion -- 2008 publication
Paperback. Offers an account of the author's modest upbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians, and the writing of his masterpiece, The Tin Drum, in Paris. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BGLA; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 121 x 28. Weight in Grams: 372.
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 Günter Grass' finest works.
By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Tin Drum.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099507598
SKU
V9780099507598
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Ref
99-20
About Günter Grass
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.
Reviews for Peeling the Onion -- 2008 publication
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
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
As a demonstration of a literary will, the novelist's last testament, it is in many ways a masterpiece
Observer
A compelling memoir. The emotions unleashed are raw... It is with extreme eloquence that he can finally excavate the silences at the heart of his life
Anita Sethi
New Statesman
He peels his particular onion with the candour and irony that have shaped his fabulist fiction for close on 50 years and this beautifully gruff, no-nonsense account of his early life is direct and conversational, though not without jolts of profoundly human remorse
Irish Times
A wonderful book, full of life, full of love, vibrant and uncompromising and as picaresque and varied as all his finest works... As a portrait of a young boy and young man alive in Germany through its most devastating decades, it will stand as a factual masterpiece... an astonishing tour de force
Carmen Callil
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
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
As a demonstration of a literary will, the novelist's last testament, it is in many ways a masterpiece
Observer
A compelling memoir. The emotions unleashed are raw... It is with extreme eloquence that he can finally excavate the silences at the heart of his life
Anita Sethi
New Statesman
He peels his particular onion with the candour and irony that have shaped his fabulist fiction for close on 50 years and this beautifully gruff, no-nonsense account of his early life is direct and conversational, though not without jolts of profoundly human remorse
Irish Times
A wonderful book, full of life, full of love, vibrant and uncompromising and as picaresque and varied as all his finest works... As a portrait of a young boy and young man alive in Germany through its most devastating decades, it will stand as a factual masterpiece... an astonishing tour de force
Carmen Callil