Translated by Leila Vennewitz

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Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1972

'Satire capable of drawing blood,' the Daily Telegraph wrote of this outstanding collection of twenty-one stories written in the years following the end of WWII. Tough-minded and unflinching in their condemnation, they also resonate with a clear-sighted compassion for human suffering all too rare in the world of today.

An internationally acclaimed writer, Heinrich Böll's work has been compared with that of Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Mann. Always politically outspoken, he was a founder member of the famous Gruppe 47 and won a succession of German literary prizes as well as the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. He died in 1985. His novels The Clown and Billiards at Half Past Nine are also available in paperback from Marion Boyars.

'The kind of writer it is impossible not to respect. In his work he wrote with compassion about the underdog – the child, the dreamer, the private soldier – and in his public life as a distinguished man of letters, he spoke for the persecuted everywhere.' The Sunday Times

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ISBN: 0-7145-0938-8
Fiction
Publication date: Spring 2002