Group Potrait with Lady
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TextPublication details: Brooklyn,New York Melville House publishing 2011Description: 452 p. 14x20cmISBN: - 9781935554332
- Gruppenbild mit Dame
- FP2011/02
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Fiction and Poetry (FP)
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Goethe Zentrum - Kampala Library | FP2011/02 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2025-0231 |
Cited by the Nobel Prize committee as the "crown" of Heinrich Boell's work, the gripping story of Group Portrait with Lady, unspools like a suspenseful documentary. Via a series of tense interview, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story- past and present- of one of Boell's most intriguing characters, the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war window. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building , a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany's dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.
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