Billiards at Half-Past Nine
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Clown
by Heinrich Boll | 
Castle Gripsholm
by Kurt Tucholsky | 
Lotte in Weimar
by Thomas Mann | 
Man of Straw
by Heinrich Mann |
Royal Highness
by Thomas Mann | 
The Meeting at Telgte
by Gunter Grass | 
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Boll | 
Women in a River Landscape
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Rat
by Gunter Grass | 
The Safety Net
by Heinrich Boll | 
Pigeons on the Grass
by Wolfgang Koeppen | 
Group Portrait with Lady
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Guiltless
by Hermann Broch |
The Blue Angel
by Heinrich Mann |
First published in 1953, And Never Said a Word is one of Heinrich Boll's finest novels. He explores the extremities of marriage with depth and compassion. Boll evokes an entire emotional world in the space of a day and a half, as husband and wife alternately relate this story of love and isolation, poverty and injustice. Weakness, as well as strength, provides the subtle emotional threads that weave the bonds of their love; married life, they discover, takes a far greater toll on all those who truly love than on those whose hearts are empty. Boll writes with a moral resonance that extracts significance from the most commonplace lives.