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Peeling the Onion

First edition cover
Author	Günter Grass
Original title	Beim Häuten der Zwiebel
Translator	Michael Henry Heim
Publisher	Steidl
Publication date	2006
Published in English	2007
ISBN	978-3-865-21330-3

Peeling the Onion (German: Beim Häuten der Zwiebel) is a 2006 autobiographical work by German Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright Günter Grass. It begins with the end of his childhood in Danzig (Gdansk) when the Second World War breaks out, and ends with the author finishing his first great literary success, The Tin Drum.

References

1. Svetlana, Chekanova (31 May 2020). "Tangible Representiation of the Memory in Günter Grass's Novel "Peeling the Onion" – Student Theses – Higher School of Economics National Research University". HSE University. Retrieved 12 October 2024.
2. Shafi, Monika (2011), Taberner, Stuart (ed.), "G??nter Grass???s Beim H??uten der Zwiebel (Peeling the Onion)", The Novel in German since 1990, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 270–283, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511667558.019, ISBN 978-0-521-19237-8, retrieved 12 October 2024
3. Irving, John (3 July 2007). "Peeling the Onion - Günter Grass - Books - Review". New York Times. Retrieved 11 October 2024.

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Bibliography
Prose	Danzig Trilogy The Tin Drum (1959) Cat and Mouse (1961) Dog Years (1963) Others Local Anaesthetic (1969) The Flounder (1977) The Meeting at Telgte (1979) The Rat (1986) The Call of the Toad (1992) My Century (1999) Crabwalk (2002) Peeling the Onion (2006) The Box (2008)
Poetry	"What Must Be Said" (2012)
Plays	The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (1966)
Adaptations	Cat and Mouse (1967) The Tin Drum (1979) The Call of the Toad (2005)

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