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7 books about Vennewitz, Leila
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Absent without Leave
Heinrich Boll
Northwestern University Press, 1995
Library of Congress PT2603.O394A28 1995 | Dewey Decimal 833.914
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And Never Said a Word
Heinrich Boll
Northwestern University Press, 1994
Library of Congress PT2603.O394U513 1994 | Dewey Decimal 833.914
"First published in 1953, And Never Said a Word is one of Heinrich Böll's richest works, a novel that explores marriage with depth and compassion. Böll evokes an entire emotional world in the space of a day and a half as a husband and wife alternately relate a story of love and isolation, poverty and injustice. Weakness, as well as strength, provides the subtle emotional threads that form the bonds of their love; and they discover married life takes a far greater toll on those who love than on those whose hearts are empty.
""Böll is a master storyteller."" --New York Times
""Böll has a talent with fiction that is not hindered by translation--a low-key grace of style and a depth of human understanding."" --Publishers' Weekly"
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The Bread of Those Early Years
Heinrich Boll
Northwestern University Press, 1994
Library of Congress PT2603.O394B713 1994 | Dewey Decimal 833.914
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Bronstein's Children
Jurek Becker
University of Chicago Press, 1999
Library of Congress PT2662.E294B7613 1999 | Dewey Decimal 833.914
"East Berlin, 1973: an 18-year-old Jew discovers that his father's friends are holding prisoner a former Nazi concentration camp guard in the family cottage. The three older men have handcuffed the ex-Nazi to the bed and are interrogating and torturing him in an attempt to get him to admit to his war crimes. . . . Becker keenly shows the tension between members of the Holocaust generation and their children, who are unable to understand the complexity of that nightmarish era of human history."—Booklist
"[A] chilly, disquieting novel about historical slippage; about the seemingly inevitable decline of horror into a vague and generic recollection. The East German writer has devised something between story and allegory to evoke the cold generational millennium that separates a father, with his concentration-camp memories, from a son, adrift in a society with no memories whatsoever."—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Mr. Becker, writing simply and clearly in an unstrained narrative, speaks with the voice of knowledge, and we do well to listen to him."—Eva Figes, New York Times Book Review
Jurek Becker (1937-1998) is the author of Jacob the Liar, Sleepless Days, The Boxer, and Amanda Herzlos.
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Irish Journal
Heinrich Boll
Northwestern University Press, 1998
Library of Congress DA978.B5613 1998 | Dewey Decimal 914.1504823
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A Soldier's Legacy
Heinrich Boll
Northwestern University Press, 1994
Library of Congress PT2603.O394V4713 1994 | Dewey Decimal 833.914
In 1943 Wenk, a German soldier guarding the Normandy coast, finds himself in a war where the main enemies are loneliness and misery. Corruption is rampant in the High Command: supplies are being siphoned off, and the starving, exhausted soldiers must cross their own minefields to steal potatoes from nearby farms.
Against all army rank and protocol, Wenk becomes friends with Lieutenant Schelling, whose protests on behalf of his men have incurred the wrath of another officer. When the company is transferred to the Russian front, heightened fear, suspicion, and mistrust explore the soldiers' barely maintained order into a chaos of desperation.
"The great strength of this short novel is its steadfast refusal to glamorize. . . . The clear-eyed wisdom that emerges from it makes it a remarkable achievement." --William Boyd, New Republic
"Böll is a master storyteller." --New York Times
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The Train Was on Time
Heinrich Boll
Northwestern University Press, 1994
Library of Congress PT2603.O394Z4513 1994 | Dewey Decimal 833.914
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