A historia dun cocho que un día lle toca nunha tómbola a Zuppi, unha nena coa que Rudi coñecerá a súa verdadeira vocación. A familia de Zuppi está formada por un pai exiptólogo en paro, unha nai profesora e tres fillos. A entrada do pequeño cocho
First published in 1953, And Never Said a Word is one of Heinrich Böll's finest works, a novel that explores the extremities of marriage with depth and compassion. Böll evokes an entire emotional world in the space of a day and a half as husband and wif
End of a Mission, written in 1968, finds Heinrich Boll trying to come to terms with his country's monstrous past in an investigation of an inexplicable crime and an even more absurd trial. Told to rack up mileage on a jeep to prepare it for inspection, a
In direct opposition to the Freudian drive theory, the author of the best-selling The Drama Of The Gifted Child believes that children, at birth, are inherently good, and she traces all forms of criminal deeds to past mistreatments.
From Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Boll, an inventive & sardonic portrayal of the effects of the Nazi period on a group of ordinary people. Weaving together the stories of a diverse array of characters, Boll explores the often bizarre & always very
This volume collects sixty-three stories and novellas written by Heinrich Böll between 1947 and 1985. It brings together selections from Böll's earlier collections and some previously unpublished work. The chronological organization represents the entir
It is 1943 and Wenk, a young German soldier guarding the Normandy coast, finds himself in a war where the main enemies are loneliness and misery. Corruption is rampant in the High Command: supplies are being siphoned off, and starving, exhausted soldiers
