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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, \u003cem\u003ePeeling the Onion--\u003c\/em\u003ewhich caused great controversy when it was published in Germany--reveals Grass at his most intimate.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrass has written a memoir of rare literary beauty . . . \u003ci\u003ePeeling the Onion, \u003c\/i\u003elike Grass s best novels, is filled with striking poetic imagery. \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize winning author Gunter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when \u003ci\u003eThe Tin Drum \u003c\/i\u003ewas published. During the Second World War, Grass was drafted into the Waffen-SS at age seventeen. Wounded by shrapnel, he was taken prisoner by American forces and 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, \u003ci\u003ePeeling the Onion \u003c\/i\u003ereveals Grass at his most intimate.\"A fascinating, multilayered memoir . . . \u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeeling the Onion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is well worth delving into.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeeling the Onion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e is more than the stories of a soldier--it is a beautiful account of the ebbings of deprivations and the flowing of relief, both physical and metaphysical.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGunter Grass was born in Danzig, Germany, in 1927 andis the widely acclaimed author of plays, essays, poems, and numerous novels. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. 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A rich and lively display of Grass's extraordinary imagination, the 100 interlinked stories in this volume-one for each year from 1900 to 1999-present a historical and social portrait for the millennium, a tale of our times in all its grandeur and all its horror.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369129672927,"sku":"9780156011419","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/BSrKqne0HA9780156011419.webp?v=1789139213"},{"product_id":"the-flounder-paperback","title":"The Flounder - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. 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Some 9,000 people went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest maritime disaster of all time. \u003cbr\u003eBorn to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of the attack, Paul Pokriefke is a middle-aged journalist trying to piece together the tragic events. While his mother sees her whole existence in terms of that calamitous moment, Paul wishes their life could have been less touched by the past. 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