Peeling the Onion: Library Edition

Grass, Gunter

ISBN 10 : 1400135060 ISBN 13 : 9781400135066

Editeur : Tantor Media Inc, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Günter 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Tantor Media Inc
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1400135060
• ISBN 13: 9781400135066
• Reliure: CD