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.

Billiards at Half-past Nine

Literature & Fiction

BÖLL, HEINRICH

Literary

McGraw=Hill

The first novella presents the story of a man who made military desertion and defection a way of life; the second story depicts the futility of war through the experiences of a young German soldier

Absent Without Leave: Two Novellas (English and German Edition)

Bound in publisher's original black cloth, spine stamped in red and white. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz.

End of a Mission

Leila Vennewitz (Translator)

Works by the contemporary German novelist portray Nazi soldiers facing defeat and certain death in Hungary and at the Polish Front

Adam and the Train: Two Novels (English and German Edition)

Classics

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 of the testimony and background of the witnesses, and their nonplussed response to the composure and satisfaction of the accused, illuminates the life of an insignificant town caught up in sudden, unreasonable importance.

Vennewitz, Leila (translator)

McGraw-Hill Companies, The

A unique entry in the Böll library, Irish Journal records an eccentric tour of Ireland in the 1950's. An epilogue written fourteen years later reflects on the enormous changes to the country and the people that Böll loved. Irish Journal is a time capsule of a land and a way of life that has disappeared.

Irish Journal.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Portraits of highly diverse characters explore a wide range of human experience and emotion

Heinrich Boll: Eighteen Stories (English and German Edition)

History & Criticism

A collection of stories--fifteen of them previously untranslated--and novellas from the internationally acclaimed author chronicles the bitter comedy of the postwar twentieth century

The Stories of Heinrich Boll (English and German Edition)

Contemporary

Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. One closed tear at head of dust jacket, otherwise fine.

Missing persons and other essays

Essays & Correspondence

McGraw

Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. Light wear to extremities of dust jacket, otherwise fine.

The Bread of Those Early Years

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Billiards at Half-past Nine

Absent Without Leave: Two Novellas (English and German Edition)

End of a Mission

Adam and the Train: Two Novels (English and German Edition)

End of a Mission

Irish Journal.

Heinrich Boll: Eighteen Stories (English and German Edition)

The Stories of Heinrich Boll (English and German Edition)

Missing persons and other essays

The Bread of Those Early Years