# Peeling the Onion

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- Book: [Peeling the Onion](https://www.bookquiver.com/gunter-grass/peeling-the-onion) ([Peeling the Onion.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/gunter-grass/peeling-the-onion.md))
- Authors: [Günter Grass](https://www.bookquiver.com/gunter-grass)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9950-759-8
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2008-06-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## 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 .