Billiards at Half-past Nine

Billiards at Half-past Nine
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1994
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140187243

Robert Faehmel finds his structured life threatened by an old schoolmate and former Nazi

Group Portrait with Lady

Group Portrait with Lady
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2011-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1935554964

Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story—past and present—of one of Böll’s most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany’s dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.

The Safety Net

The Safety Net
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2010
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 193555431X

At the center of a terrorized society buttressed by oppressive police protection and surveillance is the Tolm family, Fritz, the father, the elected head of the Association, and the children, part of the counter-culture.

The Clown

The Clown
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2010-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1935554859

Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won’t marry her within the Catholic Church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life—the loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mother, who first fought to “save” Germany from the Jews, then worked for “reconciliation” afterwards. Heinrich Böll’s gripping consideration of how to overcome guilt and live up to idealism—how to find something to believe in—gives stirring evidence of why he was such an unwelcome presence in post-War German consciousness . . . and why he was such a necessary one.

The Stories of Heinrich Böll

The Stories of Heinrich Böll
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 710
Release: 1995
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780810112070

Contains 63 stories and novellas by one of Germany's greatest writers.

Irish Journal

Irish Journal
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2011-05-31
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1935554832

A unique entry in the Böll library, Irish Journal records an eccentric tour of Ireland in the 1950's. An epilogue written fourteen years later reflects on the enormous changes to the country and the people that Böll loved. Irish Journal is a time capsule of a land and a way of life that has disappeared.

The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll

The Collected Stories of Heinrich Boll
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
Total Pages: 978
Release: 2011-12-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 161219012X

The definitive short story collection by the Nobel Laureate and master of the form These diverse, psychologically rich, and morally profound stories explore the consequences of war on individuals and on an entire culture. The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll provides readers with the only comprehensive collection by this master of the short-story form. Includes all the stories from Böll’s The Mad Dog, Eighteen Short Stories, The Casualty, and The Stories of Heinrich Böll. A Nobel Laureate, Böll was considered a master 20th century literature, and The Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll contains some of his finest work.

Tomorrow and Yesterday

Tomorrow and Yesterday
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780810112063

With the publication of Tomorrow and Yesterday, Heinrich Boll was truly regarded as the spokesman of modern Germany. Boll's novel is the story of a group of families living in a house in Germany. The members of each generation - those who lived through the war, and those conceived and born during its terror - must assess their pasts and their collective futures. This moving story is the crowning achievement of Boll's extraordinary career.