The Silent Angel by Heinrich Böll

*Used - good condition

Translated by Breon Mitchell

Published by Picador USA 1995

Rejected by German publishers in 1950, this recently discovered first novel by Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll is a treasure for scholars, students, and contemporary readers.

Just days after the end of World War II, German soldiers Hans Schnitzler returns to a bombed German city, carrying a dead comrade's coat to his widow--not knowing that the coat contains a will. Soon Hans is caught in a dangerous intrigue involving the will; he also begins a tentative romance with another grieving woman, as together they seek an identity and a future together in the ruined city. 

Raw and masterful, the Silent Angel summons the full horror of war, while affirming the human heart's enduring strength.