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A novel of a clown and mime who retreats to his home in post World War two Germany after an accident cripples him and leaves him trying to cope with his life, his "friends" desertion, and the world around him.
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Contemplative, prestige, character-led and bleak.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Heinrich Böll
- First published
- March 1, 1966
- Pages
- 247
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Bard Books by Avon, Signet
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780451027832
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“It was dark by the time I reached Bonn, and I forced myself not to succumb to the series of mechanical actions which had taken hold of me in five years of traveling back and forth: down the station steps, up the station steps, put down my suitcase, take my ticket out of my coat pocket, pick up my suitcase, hand in my ticket, cross over to the newsstand, buy the evening papers, go outside, and signal for a taxi.”
One of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers. Böll was awarded the Georg Büchner Prize in 1967 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.
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