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A struggling couple living in poverty seperate only to find that their newfound seperation does not bring them happiness.
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Intimate, grave, earnest and spare.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Heinrich Böll
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co., McGraw-Hill
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9783548021416
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About Heinrich Böll · 1917–1985
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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