2007, ISBN: 9780151014774

privates Angebot, [SC: 3.30], wie neu, [PU: Hartcourt (Lizenz Steidl)], [PU: Orlando, Austin, New York, San Diego, Toronto, London], 245x170 mm, 426, [GW: 750g], [ED: Hardcover/gebunden],… More...

privates Angebot, [SC: 3.30], wie neu, [PU: Hartcourt (Lizenz Steidl)], [PU: Orlando, Austin, New York, San Diego, Toronto, London], 245x170 mm, 426, [GW: 750g], [ED: Hardcover/gebunden], 1st U. S. edition, DE, Translated from German by Michael Henry Beim Häuten der Zwiebel The story of a life. Of a childhood in Danzig that ends with the beginning of Worl War II. The family in a crowded two-room apartment - mother, father, sister, and the young Günter, who collects cigarrette cards featuring the masterpieces of Renaissance art, and dreams of enlisting in the submarine corps. At age ten, he joins the Jungvolk; at age fifteen, he volunteers for the navy, but is rejected. "A believer till the end ... with untroubled, unquestioning fervor" - that is how Grass sees himself in his own rearview mirror. Two years later he is drafted and assigned to the Waffen-SS as a tank gunner. He is sent to the Eastern Front in the spring of 1945. Wounded, Grass ends up in an American POW camp when the war ends. There he spends time taking abstract cooking classes (no ingredients, just words) and playing dice with a pious fellow prisoner, a Bavarian by the name of Joseph ... could it have been Joseph Ratzinger? And is there that, in disbelief, he first sees photographs of Bergen-Belsen. Released from camp, Grass hits the road - working deep underground in a mine near Hanover,; carving tombstones and flirting with existentialism in Düsseldorf; making art and dancing to ragtime in Berlin with Anna, his first great love. He mourns his mother, "who was born in pain and died in pain, and set me free to write and write." He begins work on his great novel, 'The Tin Drum'. 'Peeling the Onion': an amazing story of a life and a memoir of unsurpassed literary brilliance. --- Full of the bravado of youth, the rubble of postwar Germany, the thrill of art and love, and the exhilaration of Paris in the early fifties, 'Peeling the Onion' - which caused great controversy on its publication in Germany - reveals Günter Grass at his most intimate. "Today, as in years past, the temptation to camouflage oneself in the third person remains great: He was going on twelve, though he still loved sitting in his mother's lap, when such and such began and ended. But can something that had a beginning and an end be pinpointed with such precision? In my case it can. [...]" Skins Beneath the Skin "The onion has many skins ... Peeled, it renews itself; chopped, it brings tears; only during peeling does it speak the truth." "A believer till the end ... with untroubled, unquestioning fervor" Günter Grass "Grass has written a memoir of rare literary beauty ... filled with striking poetic imagery ... [It] will be read long after the political polemics, not to mention the current storm over his belated confession, have been forgotten." The New Yorker "Grass is a daring writer, and he has always been a daring man. He remains a hero to me, both as a writer and as a moral compass." John Irving "[A] hotly emotional an complex work ... the best account I know of surviving, and growing up in, chaotic, pauperized West Germany ... Grass's energy as a writer has always sprung from his belief in experience: things horrible, comic, delicious, but always things felt, seen, touched, eaten or embraced." London Review of Books "One of Grass's most accessible and engaging works." The Times, London First U. S. edition Steidl 978-0-15-101477-4 Mit Schutzumschlag., Banküberweisung, Internationaler Versand<

2007, ISBN: 9780151014774

Hardcover

München, dtv, 1969, 1969. paperback. gebraucht, gut Schnittkante nachgedunkelt, Einband berieben und lichtrandig. 17,81 x 10,59 x 1,60., München, dtv, 1969, 1969, 2.5, dtv, 1997. … More...

München, dtv, 1969, 1969. paperback. gebraucht, gut Schnittkante nachgedunkelt, Einband berieben und lichtrandig. 17,81 x 10,59 x 1,60., München, dtv, 1969, 1969, 2.5, dtv, 1997. paperback. gebraucht, gut Schnittkante nachgedunkelt, Einband berieben --- Hersteller: dtv, Tumblingerstraße 21, 80337 München, Deutschland, kundenservice@dtv.de. 19,00 x 12,00 x 4,00., dtv, 1997, 2.5, [ Edition: First ]. Good Condition. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] Publisher: Harcourt Pub Date: 6/25/2007 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 425, 2.5<

2007, ISBN: 9780151014774

NY: Harcourt, Inc., 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nobel Prize winning author Günter Grass' autobiography causing controversy b… More...

NY: Harcourt, Inc., 2007. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Nobel Prize winning author Günter Grass' autobiography causing controversy because of his admission of volunteering for the submarine corps at the age of 15 and then being drafted into the Waffen SS, the combat force of the SS, in 1944 when he was 17. Much of the German novelist's work has dealt with the idea of morally dealing with one's past, in this case Germany's collective conscious. Clean copy. Record # 378381, Harcourt, Inc., 2007, 3<