Heinrich Boll Message Board 12/1/2006 9:33:17 AM
Talk about the novels, new and used books that
Boll has written!
Author Boll's Book
Reviews
And Where Were You, Adam?
Hitler's once great army is broken and demoralized, the end of
the war is imminent--but still soldiers are rounded up like
criminals and sent to the front, Jews are 'evacuated, ' guns are
fired, shells explode. In this novel Boll paints war as a series of
idiocies, senseless accidents, and bizarre coincidences related
only through death.... Billiards At Half-Past Nine
A story of life in post-Nazi germany after the war.... The Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum
This powerfully affecting short novel was written in 1974
and is a searching but bitter analysis of urban German
society. Katharina is young, sensitive, competent and
hard-working. She is scrupulously honest, she keeps herself
to herself, she is well respected. There is a chance
meeting with an exciting young man, dancing, a night
together. Then her world is shattered. She turns herself in
- confesses to the murder of a journalist. She is
convi...
