In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author G nter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published.
Taken prisoner by American forces as he was recovering from shrapnel wounds, he spent the fina.
During the Second World War, Grass volunteered for the submarine corps at the age of fifteen but was rejected; two years later, in 1944, he was instead drafted into the Waffen-SS.
In this extraordinary memoir, Nobel Prize-winning author G nter Grass remembers his early life, from his boyhood in a cramped two-room apartment in Danzig through the late 1950s, when The Tin Drum was published