Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780140187281
A "powerful image of innocence betrayed, of measureless evil oozing quietly from regulated, unimpeachable convention" - LJ.
Author : Julian Preece
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1839024372
A pivotal film for new German cinema -- Political context in post-68 West Germany -- Heinrich Böll's novel, or how violence develops and where it can lead -- Words or guns? Katharina Blum's struggle for articulacy -- Influence and afterlives.
Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 193555431X
At the center of a terrorized society buttressed by oppressive police protection and surveillance is the Tolm family, Fritz, the father, the elected head of the Association, and the children, part of the counter-culture.
Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Authors, German
ISBN : 9780749398989
FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE Katharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when she falls in love with a young radical on the run from the police. Portrayed by the city's leading newspaper as a whore, a communist and an atheist, she becomes the target of anonymous phone calls and sexual threats. Blum's life is systematically undone by the distortions of a corrupt press, concerned only with presenting the most salacious story. This is a chilling and unforgettable novel from a Nobel Prize-winning writer.
Author : Heinrich Boll
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 2011-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1935554964
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. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany’s dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.
Author : Richard Flanagan
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1555848362
From the internationally acclaimed author of Gould’s Book of Fish comes an astonishing new novel, a riveting portrayal of a society driven by fear. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? Gina Davies is about to find out when, after a night spent with an attractive stranger, she becomes a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. In The Unknown Terrorist, one of the most brilliant writers working in the English language today turns his attention to the most timely of subjects — what our leaders tell us about the threats against us, and how we cope with living in fear. Chilling, impossible to put down, and all too familiar, The Unknown Terrorist is a relentless tour de force that paints a devastating picture of a contemporary society gone haywire, where the ceaseless drumbeat of terror alert levels, newsbreaks, and fear of the unknown pushes a nation ever closer to the breaking point.
Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107094518
A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.
Author : J.T. LeRoy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2009-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 140880669X
A series of loosely connected autobiographical stories, they describe the disturbing relationship between a mother and her adolescent son as she moves from lover to lover, dressing him as a girl and forcing him to shoplift. These are shocking stories of abusive love and dysfunctional sexuality, of heartbreak and of innocence lost. Once again, LeRoy's fantastical imagination and lyricism twists his haunted past into something utterly strange and magical.
Author : Heinrich Böll
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Three-generation story of a family of German architects who, in rebuilding their destroyed abbey, personify the alternate destruction and rebuilding of their country.
Author : Wolfgang Koeppen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393321944
Mirroring the social and political upheaval following the fall of Nazism, Koeppen offers the story of four members of a German family reunited by chance in the decaying beauty of postwar Rome.
