In 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 "The Tin
Drum "was published. During the Second World War, Grass volunteered
for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two
years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS.
Taken prisoner by American forces as he was recovering from
shrapnel wounds, he 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, "Peeling the
Onion--"which caused great controversy when it was published in
Germany--reveals Grass at his most intimate.
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