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{{Short description|2006 autobiographical work by Günter Grass}}
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{{Infobox novel
| image             = PeelingTheOnion.jpg
| caption           = First edition cover
| isbn              = 978-3-865-21330-3
| title_orig        = Beim Häuten der Zwiebel
| orig_lang_code    = de
| publisher         = [[Steidl]]
| author            = [[Günter Grass]]
| pub_date          = 2006
| english_pub_date  = 2007
| translator        = [[ Michael Henry Heim]]
}}
'''''Peeling the Onion''''' ({{langx|de|link=no|'''Beim Häuten der Zwiebel'''}}) is a 2006 autobiographical work by German Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright [[Günter Grass]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Svetlana |first=Chekanova |date=2020-05-31 |title=Tangible Representiation of the Memory in Günter Grass’s Novel “Peeling the Onion” – Student Theses – Higher School of Economics National Research University |url=https://www.hse.ru/en/edu/vkr/369061961 |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=[[HSE University]]}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Shafi |first=Monika |title=G??nter Grass???s Beim H??uten der Zwiebel (Peeling the Onion) |date=2011 |work=The Novel in German since 1990 |pages=270–283 |editor-last=Taberner |editor-first=Stuart |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/novel-in-german-since-1990/gnter-grasss-beim-huten-der-zwiebel-peeling-the-onion/F05F9EEDDAC65F9088BB6BBF06A037DB |access-date=2024-10-12 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/cbo9780511667558.019 |isbn=978-0-521-19237-8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Irving |first=John |date=2007-07-03 |title=Peeling the Onion - Günter Grass - Books - Review |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/books/review/Irving.html |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=[[New York Times]]}}</ref> 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]]''.
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