{"product_id":"peeling-the-onion-9780156035347","title":"Peeling the Onion","description":"In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when \u003cem\u003eThe Tin Drum \u003c\/em\u003ewas 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, \u003cem\u003ePeeling the Onion--\u003c\/em\u003ewhich caused great controversy when it was published in Germany--reveals Grass at his most intimate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Günter Grass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harpervia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.30w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780156035347\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/13\/2008 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteidl Verlag:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Steidl is a German-language publisher, an international publisher of photobooks, and a printing company, based in Gottingen, Germany.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrass, Günter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - GÜNTER GRASS (1927-2015), Germany's most celebrated contemporary writer, attained worldwide renown with the publication of his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Tin Drum\u003c\/i\u003e in 1959. A man of remarkable versatility, Grass was a poet, playwright, social critic, graphic artist, and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1999. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harpervia","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40538711720051,"sku":"9.78016E+12","price":26.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_4d02bbcf-e7fd-478a-a982-bc3e8c8bf608.jpg?v=1666703257","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/peeling-the-onion-9780156035347","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}