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The Train Was on Time
Heinrich Böll
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Description for The Train Was on Time
Paperback.
'Böll's novel blows a stent in the human heart. . . It feels more necessary than ever.' Anna Funder, from the introduction
'This is the best book I have read this year; not by miles, but by whole astronomical units; I am stunned by it as if by a blow. It is *astonishing* to the extent that I cannot convey to you its power' Sarah Perry, bestselling author of The Essex Serpent and Melmoth
Twenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is travelling on a troop train to the Eastern Front when he has an awful premonition ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241370384
SKU
9780241370384
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About Heinrich Böll
Heinrich Böll won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. Born in Cologne in 1917, Böll was raised in a pacifist Catholic family who later opposed Nazism. After an apprenticeship at a bookseller's, he was drafted into the Nazi Wehrmacht before being sent to an American prisoner-of-war camp in 1945. After the war he enrolled at university, but dropped out ... Read more
Reviews for The Train Was on Time
His work reaches the highest level of creative originality and stylistic perfection
Daily Telegraph
Böll combines a mammoth intelligence with a literary outlook that is masterful and unique
Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22 My most-admired contemporary novelist
John Ashbery We must be grateful to the Penguin European Writers series, a precious venture in these dark times ... Read more
Daily Telegraph
Böll combines a mammoth intelligence with a literary outlook that is masterful and unique
Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22 My most-admired contemporary novelist
John Ashbery We must be grateful to the Penguin European Writers series, a precious venture in these dark times ... Read more