- Fiction, Reconstruction (1939-1951), Germany, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
The Silent Angel is a haunting love story set amid the ruins of a bombed-out city, which is in fact Cologne but has been compared by the critics today to destroyed Sarajevo, Beirut, and Belfast.
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Prestige, grave, classical in form and earnest.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Heinrich Böll
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 184
- Publisher
- Deutsch, St Martins Pr, Cassell
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780233989600
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“THE FIRE GLOW in the north of the city was bright enough for him to make out the letters over the portal: . . . CENT-HAUS he read, and cautiously made his way up the stairs; light came from one of the basement windows to the right of the steps.”
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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