The setting is Danzig during World War II. The narrator recalls a boyhood scene in which a black cat pounces on his friend Mahlke's 'mouse'-his prominent Adam's apple. This incident sets off a wild se...
Anfang der 50er Jahre trommelt und schreibt in einer Heil- und Pflegeanstalt ein Buckliger des Jahrgangs 1924 die Geschichte seines Lebens und seiner Familie vom Begin des Jahrhunderts bis in das Deut...
"Peeling the Onion" is a searingly honest memoir that evokes Grass' modestupbringing in Danzig, his time as a boy soldier fighting the Russians andconcludes with the writing of his masterpiece, "The T...