End of a Mission
by Heinrich Boll | 
Vertigo
by W. G. Sebald | 
The Oppermanns
by Lion Feuchtwanger | 
The Lime Works
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Yes
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Man in the Holocene
by Max Frisch | 
No Place on Earth
by Christa Wolf | 
Dark Spring
by Unica Zurn | 
The Last World
by Christoph Ransmayr | 
Hotel Savoy
by Joseph Roth | 
The Ship
by Hans Henny Jahnn | 
The Quest For Christa T.
by Christa Wolf | 
How German is it
by Walter Abish | 
Postcards from Berlin
by Margaret Leroy | 
The Rat
by Gunter Grass | 
The Wall Jumper
by Peter Schneider | 
The Safety Net
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
by Peter Handke | 
The Weekend
by Bernhard Schlink | 
Hedwig and Berti
by Frieda Arkin |
These stories by Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll, written between 1946 and 1952 but only published here in 1987, are stunning accounts of German soldiers in a war they did not want and the bleak aftermath of Germany in ruins. In this early work, Böll's style is already powerful and evocative, engaging in the moral drama that will come to fruition in such later works as Billiards at Half-Past Nine, The Clown, Group Portrait with Lady, and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum.