Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Penguin Classics)
 Not one of Boll's best efforts, but still worth reading.: Heinrich Boll, Billiards at Half Past Nine (Signet, 1962) Heinrich Boll was a brilliant mystery writer. Moreover, he was capable of writing mysteries unlike anything seen before, mysteries that [... more]
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The Clown (Penguin Classics)
A great book and more timely than ever: I read this book years ago (on a plane ride) and it has stayed with me as few other books have. It cuts to the heart of something that is wrong with our culture, maybe with all of our civilization; specifically, I [... more]
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence ...
An early attack on the power of tabloid journalism.: Katharina Blum's murder of a newspaper reporter, to which she has confessed on the opening page, is not the point of attack for a mystery story, despite that implication on the book jacket. There is [... more]
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The Silent Angel: A Novel
Bleak, austere, unforgettable: The overwhelming feeling you get when reading this book is the desperate struggle for short term survival. The background is a German city (possibly Cologne) in the first Days and weeks after the capitulation of the German [... more]
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The Casualty (Norton Paperback Fiction)
A striking and terrifying view of war and its aftermath: These 22 short stories by Heinrich Böll are powerful and moving. Most of the stories are very short, "The Casualty" being the longest (40 pages in this edition). "Vive La France& [... more]
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The Safety Net (European Classics)
the terrorists always win: Boll weaves an interesting story of a man in the public eye, who, along with his family, needs to be protected at all times. Security guards make a normal life nearly impossible for the family, which is rather fractured anyway. [... more]
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And Where Were You, Adam (European Classics)
An excellent book that places responsibility for WWII: This book is an excellent mind game. Boll uses many subtle tools to focus blame on the entire German populace for the events of World War II. One of the major devices used contrasting irony. Boll [... more]
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A Soldier's Legacy (European Classics)
The vast bottomless black pit -- an era before quagmires: Since the Korean War and especially since Vietnam, Americans have thought of foreign wars as a quagmire, the German equivalent now portrays the war on the Eastern Front as a vast bottomless black [... more]
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The Stories of Heinrich Boll (European Classics)
Tremendous: A fantastic collection. Boll shows a beautiful touch in presenting the horror of WWII and its aftermath. The story "Stranger bear word to the Spartans..." alone is worth the cover price, and it's only 5 of the 400+ pages. Do [... more]
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The Bread of Those Early Years (European Classics)
I felt as if I had never seen anything but that door.: My favorite novel is _The Stranger_ by Albert Camus. _The Bread of Those Early Years_ reminds me of some of the brilliance of _The Stranger_. This novel is absurdist and existential. Walter Fendrich, [... more]
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Tomorrow and Yesterday (European Classics)
Author: Heinrich Boll Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 833.914 EAN: 9780810112063 Edition: Translated ISBN: 081011206X Number Of Pages: 250 Publication Date: 1996-04-08 [... more]
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What's to Become of the Boy: Or, Something to Do with ...
A remarkable youth in a remarkable time: After almost 50 years, Boll looks back at his teens from 15 to 19, from 1933-37 in Germany, coinciding with Hitler's rise to power. Boll writes about the importance of books and intelligence in his childhood. [... more]
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