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BOOKS by heinrich boll

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by Heinrich Boll

Through the eyes of a despairing artist, Hans Schneir, who recreates in his pantomimes incidents in people's lives with honesty and compassion, Boll draws a revealing portrait of German society under Hitler and in the postwar years.

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Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Lost Honor of Katharina Blum more books like this

by Heinrich Boll

A law-abiding young woman becomes a murderer when she is confronted with social injustice and society's toleration of it.

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Billiards at Half-Past Nine

Billiards at Half-Past Nine more books like this

by Heinrich Boll

Robert Fachmel, a vehement opponent of Nazism, is nevertheless a soldier at the end of World War II (as was Böll), in command of the retreat of German forces. When the war is over, Fachmel desperately struggles to return to a normal life--including his daily billiards game--but is unable to do so when he becomes overwhelmed with devastating ...

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Group portrait with lady

Group portrait with lady more books like this

by Heinrich Boll

This novel takes place during World War II. Leni Pfeiffer is German, and her secret lover is a Soviet prisoner of war; the relationship is both sustaining and threatening. Her story is told--to an anonymous author/investigator--by people ("informants") who know her, and a complete portrait emerges, not only of Leni but of German life under the ...

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Missing persons and other essays

Missing persons and other essays more books like this

by Heinrich Boll

The only collection of Boll's nonfiction prose to be published in English spans over two decades of social, political, literary, and cultural commentary. These twenty-nine essays, reviews, and speeches reflect the same moral passion and deep wisdom that resonate through his fiction. Here is Boll the Nobel laureate and Boll the private man: his ...

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Irish journal

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by Heinrich Böll

In IRISH JOURNAL, Heinrich Boll the celebrated novelist becomes Heinrich Boll the relatively obscure traveler, touring Ireland in the mid-1950s with his wife and children. While time may stand still in Irish pubs, Boll does not, and his descriptions of his various travels throughout Ireland are as vivid and compelling today as they were over 40 ...

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Within the Whirlwind

Within the Whirlwind more books like this

by Eugenia Ginzburg, Ian Boland (Translator), Heinrich Boll (Introduction by)

The first volume of Eugenia Ginzburg's memoirs, Journey into the Whirlwind, has been ranked in the company of Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago. Within the Whirlwind continues the narrative of Mrs. Ginzburg's nightmarish ten-year survival of Soviet prisons and labor camps, following the Stalinist purges of 1937. This portion of her story is ...

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The Safety Net

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by Heinrich Böll

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Silent angel

Silent angel more books like this

by Heinrich Boll

This long-supressed first novel from a Nobel Prize-winning author summons the full horror of war, while affirming the heart's capacity for love. Just days after the end of World War II, a German soldier returns to bombed-out Cologne, carrying the coast and will of a dead comrade's coat to his widow. Soon he begins a tentative romance with the ...

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End of a mission.

End of a mission. more books like this

by Heinrich Böll

End of a Mission, written in 1968, finds Heinrich Boll trying to come to terms with his country's monstrous past in an investigation of an inexplicable crime and an even more absurd trial. Told to rack up mileage on a jeep to prepare it for inspection, a soldier drives it home--and burns it in the company of his complaisant father. Boll's account ...

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Casualty more books like this

by Heinrich Boll

Stories written between 1946 and 1952, most of them about German soldiers in World War II.

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Der Zug War Punktlich more books like this

by Heinrich Boll, Distribooks

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Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum : oder, Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann : Erzählung

by Heinrich Böll

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Children are civilians too more books like this

by Heinrich Boll

Twenty-six short stories by Boll illustrate the lives of ordinary German people in the years after the World War II. The themes which informed Boll's work throughout his life, such as the legacy of fascism, the continuing militarism of West Germany after the war, and the emptiness of materialism, are all introduced in this collection from his ...

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Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum

by Heinrich Böll, Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Ruth Rach

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A Soldier's Legacy more books like this

by Heinrich Boll

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Billard um halb zehn.

by Heinrich Böll

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And never said a word more books like this

by Heinrich Böll

This novel takes place in a day and a half, as a husband and wife--Fred and Kate Bogner--tell, in alternating chapters, a sad story of love, poverty, and alienation.

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The bread of those early years more books like this

by Heinrich Böll

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Ansichten eines Clowns. Roman.

by Heinrich Böll

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The stories of Heinrich Böll more books like this

by Heinrich Böll

Now in paperback, the first complete collection of short fiction by the master German author of Billiards at Half-Past Nine and Group Portrait With Lady.

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The Mad Dog Stories more books like this

by Heinrich Boll, Breon Mitchell (Translator)

Ten previously unpublished stories written between 1936 and 1950 by Heinrich Böll, the German Nobel laureate (1972), about the difficult pursuit of a moral life in a corrupt world.

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The train was on time more books like this

by Heinrich Böll

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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead

by Heinrich Boll

A law-abiding young woman becomes a murderer when she is confronted with social injustice and society's toleration of it.

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Lost Honour of Katharina Blum more books like this

by Heinrich Boll

A law-abiding young woman becomes a murderer when she is confronted with social injustice and society's toleration of it.

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