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The memoir of Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer
Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass's first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.
An exquisitely constructed narrative... Peeling the Onion is a
genuine masterpiece
*Independent on Sunday*
A memoir of rare literary beauty
*New Yorker*
As a writer, his influence still looms large, and Peeling the Onion
is a reminder why. It has that same imaginative accuracy that made
The Tin Drum a bestseller
*The Times*
An ingenious but treacherous text that glides constantly between
past and present, first and third person, memory and
imagination
*Evening Standard*
This subtle and expertly written book is really a memoir about
forgetting
*Sunday Times*
Grass's profound and moving memoir [has] an unforgettable power,
and it is not just the significance of his experiences, but the
virtuosity of his writing which elevates Peeling the Onion over any
memoir published in recent years
*Daily Telegraph*
As a demonstration of a literary will, the novelist's last
testament, it is in many ways a masterpiece
*Observer*
A compelling memoir. The emotions unleashed are raw... It is with
extreme eloquence that he can finally excavate the silences at the
heart of his life
*New Statesman*
He peels his particular onion with the candour and irony that have
shaped his fabulist fiction for close on 50 years and this
beautifully gruff, no-nonsense account of his early life is direct
and conversational, though not without jolts of profoundly human
remorse
*Irish Times*
A wonderful book, full of life, full of love, vibrant and
uncompromising and as picaresque and varied as all his finest
works... As a portrait of a young boy and young man alive in
Germany through its most devastating decades, it will stand as a
factual masterpiece... an astonishing tour de force
*Carmen Callil*
Nobel laureate Grass, Germany's greatest living author and moralist, shocked just about everyone last year when he revealed that he once was a member of Hitler's elite Waffen-SS. The real surprise, however, was not that he served in the infamous Nazi unit but that he concealed his service for decades while harshly criticizing his countrypeople for failing to deal adequately with their Nazi past. In this English translation of his latest autobiographical memoir, Grass tries to explain why his story is more complicated than it sounds and discloses how he was finally driven by guilt to reveal this shameful episode in his past. He sketches his life since early childhood in Danzig (now Gda 'nsk, Poland) and through the late 1950s, deliberately mixing his real life and the characters from his fictions in a process that, not unlike the peeling of an onion, uncovers layers and produces tears. The memoir's beauty and poetic tone should not be overshadowed by the controversy surrounding its author's mea culpa. In any case, as critics acknowledge, his legacy will be his rescue of the national language from linguistic abuse by the Nazis. Highly recommended for all large collections.-Ali Houissa, Cornell Univ. Lib., Ithaca, NY Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
An exquisitely constructed narrative... Peeling the Onion is
a genuine masterpiece * Independent on Sunday *
A memoir of rare literary beauty * New Yorker *
As a writer, his influence still looms large, and Peeling the
Onion is a reminder why. It has that same imaginative accuracy
that made The Tin Drum a bestseller * The Times *
An ingenious but treacherous text that glides constantly between
past and present, first and third person, memory and imagination *
Evening Standard *
This subtle and expertly written book is really a memoir about
forgetting -- Sebastian Faulks * Sunday Times *
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