Synopses & Reviews
Just days after the end of World War II, German soldier Hans Schnitzler returns to a bombed German city, carrying a dead comrade's coat to his widow-not knowing that the coat contains a will. Soon Hans is caught in a dangerous intrigue involving the will; he also begins a tentative romance with another grieving woman, as together they seek an identity and a future together in he ruined city.
Review
"A rich novel, one still pertinent to our own hunger for teh bread of meaning amid the rubble of history." --
The New York Times Book Review "A stark and brilliant novel . . . Breon Mitchell's translation is strong and accurate" --Ursula Hegi, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Vividly realistic . . . strongly symbolic . . . a story about the never-endinig war between good and evil." --Christian Science Monitor
About the Author
Heinrich Böll recieved the Nobel Prize for literature in 1927. His novels include
The Clown and
Billiards at Half-Past Nine. He died in 1985 in Germany