The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: Or, How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Boll, Heinrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014310540X ISBN 13: 9780143105404

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2009

Synopsis

Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll's powerful novel about a woman terrorized by the media

A Penguin Classic

In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Henrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum has taken on heightened relevance. A young woman's association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare. Turning the mystery genre on its head, the novel begins with the confession of a crime, drawing the reader into a web of sensationalism, character assassination, and the unavoidable eruption of violence.

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Review:

By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Book Description:

An unforgettable novel that shows how easily a life can be ruined when the police and the media are allowed to run rampage through a person's life. It resonates as strongly today as it did in 1970s Germany.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 014310540X
• ISBN 13: 9780143105404
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128