Böll’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, now a power in the reconstruction of Germany, forces him to confront private memories and the wounds of Germany’s defeat in the two World Wars.
- ISBN10 1935554182
- ISBN13 9781935554189
- Publish Date 28 December 2010 (first published 1 December 1963)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Melville House Publishing
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 304
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9781935554189