Billiards at Half-Past Nine |
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| Author:
| Boll, Heinrich |
| Translator:
| Bowles, Patrick |
| Afterword by:
| Crispin, Jessa |
| Series title: | The Essential Heinrich Boll Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-935554-18-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2010 |
| Publisher: | Melville House Publishing
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Böll'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-timenbsp; nemesis, now a power in the reconstruction of Germany, forces him to confront private memories and the wounds of Germany's defeat in the two World Wars.
Böll'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-timenbsp; nemesis, now a power in the reconstruction of Germany, forces him to confront private memories and the wounds of Germany's defeat in the two World Wars.