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Heinrich Boll
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Group Portrait with Lady |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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464 |
| Date: |
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2011-03-18 |
| ISBN: |
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1935554336 |
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Melville House |
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0.95 pounds |
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5.43 x 1.18 x 8.11 inches |
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2 Dorith Carmeli (Israel), Martha Fulmer (USA: CA) |
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2 talisa (Israel), Phil (USA: MI) |
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Product Description
Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the “crown” of Heinrich Böll’s work, the gripping story of Group Portrait With Lady unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story—past and present—of one of Böll’s most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow.
At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany’s dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.
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http://bookmooch.com/1935554336 |
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