Peeling the onion / Günter Grass ; translated from German by Michael Henry Heim.
2007
PT2613.R338 Z46 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
Peeling the onion / Günter Grass ; translated from German by Michael Henry Heim.
Author
Grass, Günter, 1927-2015.
Uniform Title
Beim Häuten der Zwiebel. English
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
ISBN
9780151014774
0151014779
0151014779
Imprint
Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., c2007.
Language
English
Description
425 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PT2613.R338 Z46 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
838/.91409
B
B
Summary
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, this book reveals Grass at his most intimate.--From publisher description.
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Heim, Michael Henry.
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Table of Contents
Skins beneath the skin
Encapsulations
His name was Wedontdothat
How I learned fear
Guests at table
At and below the surface
The third hunger
How I became a smoker
Berlin air
While cancer, soundless
The wedding gifts I received.
Encapsulations
His name was Wedontdothat
How I learned fear
Guests at table
At and below the surface
The third hunger
How I became a smoker
Berlin air
While cancer, soundless
The wedding gifts I received.