# Peeling the Onion

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- Authors: [Günter Grass](https://www.bookquiver.com/gunter-grass)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2008-06-05
- Genres: Biography: writers, Memoirs, Literature: history and criticism

## Description

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 .

## Editions

### Peeling the Onion

- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0907-807-4
- Published: 2017-06-22
- Language: en_GB

### Peeling the Onion

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9950-759-8
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2008-06-05
- Language: en_GB