Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A young woman's association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare.
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A young woman's association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A young woman's association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Die Verlorene Ehre Der Katharina Blum)
Author: Julian Preece
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1839024372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
A pivotal film for new German cinema -- Political context in post-68 West Germany -- Heinrich Böll's novel, or how violence develops and where it can lead -- Words or guns? Katharina Blum's struggle for articulacy -- Influence and afterlives.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1839024372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
A pivotal film for new German cinema -- Political context in post-68 West Germany -- Heinrich Böll's novel, or how violence develops and where it can lead -- Words or guns? Katharina Blum's struggle for articulacy -- Influence and afterlives.
The Safety Net
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 193555431X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
At the center of a terrorized society buttressed by oppressive police protection and surveillance is the Tolm family, Fritz, the father, the elected head of the Association, and the children, part of the counter-culture.
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 193555431X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
At the center of a terrorized society buttressed by oppressive police protection and surveillance is the Tolm family, Fritz, the father, the elected head of the Association, and the children, part of the counter-culture.
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Or, How Violence Develops and where it Can Lead
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140187281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A "powerful image of innocence betrayed, of measureless evil oozing quietly from regulated, unimpeachable convention" - LJ.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140187281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A "powerful image of innocence betrayed, of measureless evil oozing quietly from regulated, unimpeachable convention" - LJ.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Author: Heinrich Böll
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
ISBN: 9780749398989
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE Katharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when she falls in love with a young radical on the run from the police. Portrayed by the city's leading newspaper as a whore, a communist and an atheist, she becomes the target of anonymous phone calls and sexual threats. Blum's life is systematically undone by the distortions of a corrupt press, concerned only with presenting the most salacious story. This is a chilling and unforgettable novel from a Nobel Prize-winning writer.
Publisher: Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
ISBN: 9780749398989
Category : Authors, German
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE Katharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when she falls in love with a young radical on the run from the police. Portrayed by the city's leading newspaper as a whore, a communist and an atheist, she becomes the target of anonymous phone calls and sexual threats. Blum's life is systematically undone by the distortions of a corrupt press, concerned only with presenting the most salacious story. This is a chilling and unforgettable novel from a Nobel Prize-winning writer.
The Unknown Terrorist
Author: Richard Flanagan
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 1555848362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
From the internationally acclaimed author of Gould’s Book of Fish comes an astonishing new novel, a riveting portrayal of a society driven by fear. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? Gina Davies is about to find out when, after a night spent with an attractive stranger, she becomes a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. In The Unknown Terrorist, one of the most brilliant writers working in the English language today turns his attention to the most timely of subjects — what our leaders tell us about the threats against us, and how we cope with living in fear. Chilling, impossible to put down, and all too familiar, The Unknown Terrorist is a relentless tour de force that paints a devastating picture of a contemporary society gone haywire, where the ceaseless drumbeat of terror alert levels, newsbreaks, and fear of the unknown pushes a nation ever closer to the breaking point.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 1555848362
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
From the internationally acclaimed author of Gould’s Book of Fish comes an astonishing new novel, a riveting portrayal of a society driven by fear. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country? Gina Davies is about to find out when, after a night spent with an attractive stranger, she becomes a prime suspect in the investigation of an attempted terrorist attack. In The Unknown Terrorist, one of the most brilliant writers working in the English language today turns his attention to the most timely of subjects — what our leaders tell us about the threats against us, and how we cope with living in fear. Chilling, impossible to put down, and all too familiar, The Unknown Terrorist is a relentless tour de force that paints a devastating picture of a contemporary society gone haywire, where the ceaseless drumbeat of terror alert levels, newsbreaks, and fear of the unknown pushes a nation ever closer to the breaking point.
The Cambridge Companion to Film Music
Author: Mervyn Cooke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107094518
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107094518
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
A stimulating and unusually wide-ranging collection of essays overviewing ways in which music functions in film soundtracks.
The Day of Judgment
Author: Salvatore Satta
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784975710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
At precisely nine o'clock, as he did every evening, Don Sebastiano Sanna Carboni pushed back his armchair, carefully folded the newspaper which he had read to the very last line, tidied up the little things on his desk, and prepared to go down to the ground floor... Around the turn of the twentieth century, in the isolated Sardinian town of Nuoro, the aristocratic notary Don Sebastiano Sanna reflects on his life, his family's history and the fortunes of this provincial backwater where he has lived out his days.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784975710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
At precisely nine o'clock, as he did every evening, Don Sebastiano Sanna Carboni pushed back his armchair, carefully folded the newspaper which he had read to the very last line, tidied up the little things on his desk, and prepared to go down to the ground floor... Around the turn of the twentieth century, in the isolated Sardinian town of Nuoro, the aristocratic notary Don Sebastiano Sanna reflects on his life, his family's history and the fortunes of this provincial backwater where he has lived out his days.
Group Portrait with Lady
Author: Heinrich Boll
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1935554964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1935554964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
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.
Death in Rome
Author: Wolfgang Koeppen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393321944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Mirroring the social and political upheaval following the fall of Nazism, Koeppen offers the story of four members of a German family reunited by chance in the decaying beauty of postwar Rome.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393321944
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Mirroring the social and political upheaval following the fall of Nazism, Koeppen offers the story of four members of a German family reunited by chance in the decaying beauty of postwar Rome.