Billiards at Half-Past Nine

By Heinrich Böll, Patrick Bowles & Jessa Crispin

Release : 2010-12-15

Genre : Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature

Kind : ebook

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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-time 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.

Billiards at Half-Past Nine

By Heinrich Böll, Patrick Bowles & Jessa Crispin

Release : 2010-12-15

Genre : Literary Fiction, Books, Fiction & Literature

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
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-time 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.

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