Billiards at half-past nine

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.

Year

2010

Language

English

Series

The essential Heinrich Böll

Publisher

Melville House

Editions

1

Pages

295

ISBN

9781935554189

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