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07-07-2007

Peeling the OnionBy Gunter Grass. Translated by Michael Henry Heim.425 pages. $26. Harcourt.Reviewed by John Irving*As a college student, I chose to take my junior year abroad in a German-speaking country - because, in 1961 and '62, I read ''The Tin Drum'' twice. At the ages of 14 and 15, I had read ''Great Expectations'' twice - Dickens made me want to be a writer - but it was reading ''The Tin Drum'' at 19 and 20 that showed...

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