408pp. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine ends. Text block edges starting to fox, outer edge stained. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun faded, shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. The Nobel Prize Committee claimed this novel as the 'crown' of Heinrich Boll's works, telling a take of suspenseful documentary via a series of tense interviews revealing the story of one of Boll's more enigmatic characters, Leni Pfeiffer, a war widow.
