Peeling the Onion
A Memoir
$53.29
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2008
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099507598 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099507595 |
| Author: | Günter Grass |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 351g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 121mm x 31mm |
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An exquisitely constructed narrative… Peeling the Onion is a genuine masterpiece
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
About The Author
Günter Grass
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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