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Billiards at Half-Past Nine (PB) by Heinrich Boll
Category: Fiction
Boll's well-known opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of a single day in the life of traumatized soldier Robert Faehmel, scion of a family of successful Cologne architects, as he struggles to return to ordinary life after the Second World War. An encounter with a war-time nemesis, no ...Show more
COLLECTED STORIES OF HEINRICH BOL by BOLL HEINRICH
Category: Fiction
The definitive short story collection by the Nobel Laureate and master of the formThese diverse, psychologically rich, and morally profound stories explore the consequences of war on individuals and on an entire culture. The Collected Stories of Heinrich B ll provides readers with the only comprehensive ...Show more
Group Portrait with Lady by Heinrich Boll
Category: Fiction | Series: Essential Heinrich Boll
Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the "crown" of Heinrich Boll's work, the gripping story of "Group Portrait With Lady" unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story--past and present--of one of Boll's most intriguing characters, th ...Show more
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum by Heinrich Boll
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
Katharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when, at a carnival party, she falls in love with a young radical on the run from the police. Portrayed by the city's leading newspaper as a whore, a communist and an atheist, she becomes the target of anonymous phone ...Show more
The Safety Net (PB) by Heinrich Boll
Category: Fiction
Fritz Tolm has risen to the most powerful position in Germany. With fame comes fear and vulnerability. Threats to his life are met with the all-pervasive "safety-net" of police protection and surveillance. Trapped in a house they dare not leave, where every visitor is suspect and every object a potentia ...Show more
The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll
Category: Fiction | Series: Essential Heinrich Boll
Heinrich Boll's taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas as he journeys on a troop train across the German countryside to the Eastern front. Trapped, he knows that Hitler has already lost the war ... yet he is suddenly galvanized by the thought that he is on ...Show more
The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin European Writers Ser.
Twenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is travelling on a troop train to the Eastern Front when he has an awful premonition that he will die in exactly five days. As he hurtles towards his death, he reflects on the chaos around him - the naive soldiers, the painfully thin girl who ...Show more
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