The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Clown
by Heinrich Boll | 
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Boll | 
Dog Years
by Gunter Grass | 
The Safety Net
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Silent Angel
by Heinrich Boll | 
The German Lesson
by Siegfried Lenz | 
Cat and Mouse
by Gunter Grass | 
Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years
by Thomas Mann | 
Lost
by Hans-Ulrich Treichel | 
The Rat
by Gunter Grass | 
The Guiltless
by Hermann Broch | 
Death in Rome
by Wolfgang Koeppen |
And Never Said a Word
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Flounder
by Gunter Grass | 
Buddenbrooks
by Thomas Mann | 
Woodcutters
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Little Man, What Now?
by Hans Fallada | 
Berlin Alexanderplatz
by Alfred Doblin |
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. From the Trade Paperback edition.