The German Lesson
by Siegfried Lenz | 
Group Portrait with Lady
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Safety Net
by Heinrich Boll | 
And Never Said a Word
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Guiltless
by Hermann Broch | 
The Clown
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Silent Angel
by Heinrich Boll | 
Lost
by Hans-Ulrich Treichel | 
The Hothouse
by Wolfgang Koeppen | 
Cat and Mouse
by Gunter Grass |
Lotte in Weimar
by Thomas Mann |
Death in Rome
by Wolfgang Koeppen |
The Blue Angel
by Heinrich Mann | 
The Meeting at Telgte
by Gunter Grass | 
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck | 
Nine Stories
by J. D. Salinger | 
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens | 
Stoner
by John Williams | 
Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf |
Heinrich Boll's well-known, vehement opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of Robert Faehmel. After being drawn into the Second World War to command retreating German forces despite his anti-Nazi feelings, Faehmel struggles to re-establish a normal life at the end of the war. He adheres to a rigorous schedule, including a daily game of billiards. When his routine is breached by an old friend from his past, now a power in German reconstruction, Faehmel is forced to confront bothpublic and private memories.