Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Regular price
€16.99
A01=Heinrich Boll
african
america
americana
andre gide
asia
australia
Author_Heinrich Boll
Category=FBA
collection
coming of age
communism
contemporary fiction
death
dutch
dystopia
economics
effi briest
english literature
eq_bestseller
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_modern-contemporary
eq_nobargain
existentialism
feminism
feminist
film
franz kafka
german
germany
jewish
literary
literary fiction
marriage
modernism
nobel prize
novella
penguin classics
political
politics
race
relationships
roman
russian
russian literature
scarlet letter
sci-fi
science fiction
socialism
society
sociology
south america
the reader
the train was on time
thomas mann
thriller
translation
ww2
wwii
Product details
- ISBN 9780749398989
- Weight: 108g
- Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 1993
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
Katharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when she falls in love with a young radical on the run from the police. Portrayed by the city's leading newspaper as a whore, a communist and an atheist, she becomes the target of anonymous phone calls and sexual threats. Blum’s life is systematically undone by the distortions of a corrupt press, concerned only with presenting the most salacious story. This is a chilling and unforgettable novel from a Nobel Prize-winning writer.
Heinrich Böll was one of the trio of great German writers (along with Thomas Mann and Herman Hesse) who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Böll was born in Cologne in 1917 and brought up in a liberal Catholic pacifist family. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he served on the Russian and French fronts and was wounded four times before he found himself in an American prisoner-of-war camp. After the war he enrolled at the University of Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experience as a soldier. His first novel, The Train Was on Time, was published in 1949, and he went on to become one of the most prolific and important of post-war German writers. His best-known novels include Billiards at Half-past Nine, Children are Civilians Too, Group Portrait with Lady, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, And Never Said a Word and The Safety Net. Böll served for several years as president of International P.E.N. and was a leading defender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world. He died in 1985.
