Peeling the Onion

Peeling the Onion (German: Beim Häuten der Zwiebel) is a 2006 autobiographical work by German Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright Günter Grass.^[1][2][3] 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.

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