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Und Sagte Kein Einziges Wort
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 41.95Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. more...
Ansichten Eines Clowns
Taylor & Francis 1985; US$ 39.95Includes the full German text, accompanied by German-English vocabulary. Notes and a detailed introduction in English put the work in its social and historical context. more...
The Train Was On Time
Melville House 2011; US$ 14.95Heinrich Böll?s taut and haunting first novel tells the story of twenty-four-year-old Private Andreas as he journeys on a troop train across the German countryside to the Eastern front. Trapped, he knows that Hitler has already lost the war ... yet he is suddenly galvanized by the thought that he is on the way to his death. As the train hurtles... more...
Transit
New York Review Books 2013; US$ 15.95Anna Seghers?s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight. Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German... more...
Group Portrait with Lady
Melville House 2011; US$ 16.95Cited 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 Boll
Melville House 2011; US$ 29.95The 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...
The Safety Net
Melville House 2010; US$ 16.95Fritz 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...
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Melville House 2010; US$ 16.95Böll’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... more...
The Clown
Melville House 2010; US$ 16.95Acclaimed 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 Journal
Melville House 2011; US$ 14.95A 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...









