Peeling The Onion

Peeling the Onion (German: Beim Häuten der Zwiebel) is an autobiographical work by German Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright Günter Grass, published in 2006. It begins with the end of his childhood in Danzig (Gdansk) when the Second World War breaks out, and ends with the author finishing his first great literary success, The Tin Drum.

Works by Günter Grass
Danzig Trilogy
  • The Tin Drum (1959)
  • Cat and Mouse (1961)
  • Dog Years (1963)
Fiction
  • Local Anaesthetic (1969)
  • The Flounder (1977)
  • The Meeting at Telgte (1979)
  • The Rat (1986)
  • My Century (1999)
  • Crabwalk (2002)
Memoirs
  • Peeling the Onion (2006)
  • The Box (2008)
  • Grimms Wörter (2010)
Poetry
  • "What Must Be Said" (2012)

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