February Books 1) Peeling the Onion, by Günter Grass

[nwhyte]

A fascinating autobiography - though in fact it covers only the years from the outbreak of the second world war, in the late 1930s, to Grass's first marriage 20 years later. I don't think you can read it without also reading or having read The Tin Drum, which has a lot of autobiographical elements in it, here carefully untangled and explained.

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[inulro]

I'll look out for that. I used to have a friend whose mother had grown up in German Danzig and came to England as a "stateless alien".