{"product_id":"the-lost-honour-of-katharina-blum-paperback-boll-heinrich","title":"The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum [Paperback] Boll, Heinrich","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Boll, Heinrich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 15-11-1993\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780749398989\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nFROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003e\nKatharina 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\nBoll sustains a masterly and insidious tension to the end. He is detached, angry and totally in control,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSuch is the force of Boll's conviction, the clarity of his vision and the icy economy of his unemotive prose that within this short space he has distilled a spirit that burns into the palate the unmistakeable and lasting tang of truth,\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Times\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nA marvel of compression and irony,\u003cbr\u003e\nSunday Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nHeinrich Böll was one of the trio of great German writers (along with Thomas Mann and Herman Hesse) who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Böll was born in Cologne in 1917 and brought up in a liberal Catholic pacifist family. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he served on the Russian and French fronts and was wounded four times before he found himself in an American prisoner-of-war camp. After the war he enrolled at the University of Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experience as a soldier. His first novel,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Train Was on Time, was published in 1949, and he went on to become one of the most prolific and important of post-war German writers. His best-known novels include\u003cbr\u003e\nBilliards at Half-past Nine,\u003cbr\u003e\nChildren are Civilians Too,\u003cbr\u003e\nGroup Portrait with Lady,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Lost Honour of Katharina Blum,\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd Never Said a Word and\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Safety Net. Böll served for several years as president of International P.E.N. and was a leading defender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world. He died in 1985.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780749398989\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49099007263024,"sku":"Prakash_9780749398989","price":600.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/vintage-classics-book-default-title-the-lost-honour-of-katharina-blum-paperback-boll-heinrich-38821878137136.jpg?v=1753012794","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/products\/the-lost-honour-of-katharina-blum-paperback-boll-heinrich","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}