Group Portrait With Lady - Softcover

Boll, Heinrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099578131 ISBN 13: 9780099578130

Publisher: Vintage, 2012

Synopsis

Depicting German life from WW1 until the early 1970s, Boll's novel follows Leni Pfeiffer and her illegitimate son, Lev, as they fight against the demolition of their Cologne apartment building.

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Review:

"His most grandly conceived [novel]...the magnum opus which so far crowns his work."--The Nobel Prize Committee "Extraordinary ... A powerful work of the imagination." --"The Los Angeles Times""Boll combines a mammoth intelligence with a literary outlook that is masterful and unique."--Joseph Heller

About the Author:

Heinrich Böll was one of the trio of great German writers (along with Thomas Mann and Herman Hesse) who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Böll was born in Cologne in 1917 and brought up in a liberal Catholic pacifist family. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he served on the Russian and French fronts and was wounded four times before he found himself in an American prisoner-of-war camp. After the war he enrolled at the University of Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experience as a soldier. His first novel, The Train Was on Time, was published in 1949, and he went on to become one of the most prolific and important of post-war German writers. His best-known novels include Billiards at Half-past Nine, Children are Civilians Too, Group Portrait with Lady, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, And Never Said a Word and The Safety Net. Böll served for several years as president of International P.E.N. and was a leading defender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world. He died in 1985.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0099578131
• ISBN 13: 9780099578130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416