Peeling The Onion

''Peeling the Onion'' (german: link=no, Beim Häuten der Zwiebel) is an autobiographical work by German Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Da ...

, published in 2006. It begins with the end of his childhood in Danzig (Gdansk) when the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

breaks out, and ends with the author finishing his first great literary success, ''

The Tin Drum ''The Tin Drum'' (german: Die Blechtrommel, ) is a 1959 novel by Günter Grass. The novel is the first book of Grass's ' (''Danzig Trilogy''). It was adapted into a 1979 film, which won both the 1979 Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best ...

''. 2006 non-fiction books German books Literary autobiographies Works by Günter Grass {{lit-bio-book-stub