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  • Group Portrait with Ladyby Heinrich Boll; Leila Vennewitz

    Melville House 2011; US$ 16.95

    Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the ?crown? of Heinrich Böll?s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story?past and present?of one of Böll?s most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow.... more...

  • The Collected Stories of Heinrich Bollby Heinrich Boll; Leila Vennewitz

    Melville House 2011; US$ 29.95

    The definitive short story collection by the Nobel Laureate and master of the form These diverse, psychologically rich, and morally profound stories explore the consequences of war on individuals and on an entire culture. The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll provides readers with the only comprehensive collection by this master of the short-story... more...

  • Jacob The Liarby Jurek Becker; Leila Vennewitz

    Skyhorse Publishing 2002; US$ 3.99

    Cut off from all news of the war along with thousands of fellow prisoners, Jacob Heym accidentally overhears a radio broadcast that reveals the Red Army's advancement and is forced to tell a series of lies in order to explain his knowledge. more...

  • The Safety Netby Heinrich Boll; Leila Vennewitz; Salman Rushdie

    Melville House 2010; US$ 16.95

    Fritz Tolm has risen to the most powerful position in Germany. With fame comes fear and vulnerability. Threats to his life are met with the all-pervasive “safety-net” of police protection and surveillance. Trapped in a house they dare not leave, where every visitor is suspect and every object a potential bomb, Tolm and his family wait to... more...

  • The Clownby Heinrich Boll; Leila Vennewitz; Scott Esposito

    Melville House 2010; US$ 16.95

    Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won?t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life?the loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to ?save? Germany... more...

  • Irish Journalby Heinrich Boll; Leila Vennewitz; Hugo Hamilton

    Melville House 2011; US$ 14.95

    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. From the Trade Paperback... more...

  • What's to Become of the Boy?by Heinrich Boll; Leila Vennewitz; Anne Applebaum

    Melville House 2011; US$ 14.95

    A vivid account of growing up poor, rebellious, and anti-Fascist in Nazi Germany What?s to Become of the Boy? is a spirited, insightful, and wonderfully sympathetic memoir about life during wartime written with the characteristic brilliance by one of the 20th-century?s most celebrated authors. It is both an essential autobiography of the Nobel... more...

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