Peeling the Onion
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (651 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0156035340 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.. 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 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
Five Stars excellent autobiography. Stephen Harlen said Gunter's Memoirs. A nice way of finding out who this author is and how he started on the road to the nobel prize . The early years in Danzig are fascinating and his experiences in war frightening in the extreme. Not being able to ride a bicycle probably saved his life and watching a huge Russian tank roll at him in the dark!!. are some. "Not about the SS" according to Thomas F. Dillingham. Although much has been made of the 'revelation' that Gunter Grass served briefly in the Waffen SS (and more has been made of the disappointment many feel at the hypocrisy of his concealment of that fact during a lifetime of serious political and moral writing, satirizing the hypocrisy of others while concealing his ow
As per usual, Dietz reads with smooth efficiency and understated authority. . Given the heated division between Grass partisans who passionately defend the Nobel Prize–winning novelist and Grass-haters who see him as the embodiment of moral hypocrisy, any reading of his latest work needs little in the way of amplification or hoopla. All rights reserved. A legend (at least to audiobook listeners), Dietz is a name that offers the assurance of skill without grandstanding. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. On passionately fraught ground, inflamed by the still unhealed wounds of WWII, Dietz delivers once more. Good news for Grass, then, that Norman Dietz has been hired to read his memoir. He may not be able to put out the fires Grass's memoir has set, but h