Peeling the Onion (German: Beim Häuten der Zwiebel) is an autobiographical work by German Nobel Prize-winning author and playwright Günter Grass, published in 2006. 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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Bibliography
Prose	Danzig Trilogy The Tin Drum (1959) Cat and Mouse (1961) Dog Years (1963) Others Local Anaesthetic (1969) From the Diary of a Snail (1973) The Flounder (1977) The Meeting at Telgte (1979) Headbirths, or, the Germans are Dying Out (1980) The Rat (1986) The Call of the Toad (1992) Too Far Afield (1995) My Century (1999) Crabwalk (2002) Peeling the Onion (2006) The Box (2008)
Poetry	"What Must Be Said" (2012)
Plays	The Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising (1966)
Adaptations	The Tin Drum (1979) The Call of the Toad (2005)