by Heinrich Böll · Bertelsmann · tapa dura · ISBN 9783462022148
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«Der Engel schwieg» is Heinrich Böll's novel about postwar Germany, published by Bertelsmann in 1992 (211 pages, in German).
Written between 1949 and 1951, it narrates the return of a deserter soldier to a devastated German city after the capitulation of May 8, 1945. Homeless and without documents, he traverses the rubble in search of bread and shelter, encountering both gestures of humanity and the harshness of self-interest and Christian double standards. Amid the misery, a restrained love story emerges, in keeping with the generation that returns from war without illusions. The novel is also the root of the great themes that would mark all of Böll's later work.
Posthumous work first published in 1992, four decades after it was written. Hardcover edition with dust jacket.
Recommended for readers of twentieth-century German literature and for those approaching Heinrich Böll for the first time, as it contains the essential keys to his narrative.
Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972).
