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Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll’s powerful novel, “The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum,” explores the ordeal of a woman relentlessly pursued and terrorized by the media. When 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, her life descends into a nightmare. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out. Turning the mystery story on its head, Böll begins his novel with the confession of a crime, drawing the reader into a web of sensationalism, character assassination, and unstoppable violence.
About the Author
Heinrich Boll was the first German to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Thomas Mann in 1929. Born in Cologne, in 1917, Boll was reared 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 prison camp. After the war he enrolled at the University of Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experiences as a soldier. His first novel, The Train Was on Time, was published in 1949, and he went on to become one of the most prolific and important of postwar German writers. His best-known novels include Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963), Group Portrait with Lady (1971), The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum(1974), and The Safety Net (1979). In 1981 he published a memoir, What’s to Become of the Boy? or; Something to Do with Books. Boll served for several years as the president of International P.E.N. and was a leading de fender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world. He died in June 1985.
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