These stories by Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll, written between 1946 and 1952 but only published here in 1987, are stunning accounts of German soldiers in a war they did not want and the bleak aftermath of Germany in ruins. In this early work, Böll’s style is already powerful and evocative, engaging in the moral drama that will come to fruition in such later works as Billiards at Half-Past Nine, The Clown, Group Portrait with Lady, and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum.
- ISBN10 0393305996
- ISBN13 9780393305999
- Publish Date 30 April 1989 (first published 16 October 1986)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 19 September 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 192
- Language English