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Billiards at Half-Past Nine

by Heinrich Boll
Patrick Bowles
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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.
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Series: The Essential Heinrich Boll Publisher: Melville House

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  • ISBN: 9781935554844
  • Release date: December 15, 2010

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  • ISBN: 9781935554844
  • File size: 638 KB
  • Release date: December 15, 2010

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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.
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Fiction Literature
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