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Group Portrait With Lady

Group Portrait With Lady

by HeinrichBoll (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

Depicting German life from WW1 until the early 1970s, Boll's novel follows Leni Pfeiffer and her illegitimate son, Lev, as they fight against the demolition of their Cologne apartment building.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 416
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04 Dec 2012
ISBN 10: 0099578131
ISBN 13: 9780099578130

Media Reviews
His most grandly conceived [novel]...the magnum opus which so far crowns his work. --The Nobel Prize Committee Extraordinary ... A powerful work of the imagination. -- The Los Angeles Times Boll combines a mammoth intelligence with a literary outlook that is masterful and unique. --Joseph Heller
Author Bio
Heinrich Boell 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. Boell 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. Boell 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.