Billiards at Half-Past Nine

Description

Böll’s well-known opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of a single day in the life of traumatized soldier Robert Faehmel, scion of a family of successful Cologne architects, as he struggles to return to ordinary life after the Second World War. An encounter with a war-time nemesis, now a power in the reconstruction of Germany, forces him to confront private memories and the wounds of Germany’s defeat in the two World Wars.

• Author: Heinrich Boll
• Publisher: Melville House
• Published: 2010-12-15
• Pages: 305
• ISBN-13: 9781935554844