by Heinrich Böll · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423009911
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«Billard um halb zehn» is the novel by German writer Heinrich Böll, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (240 pages, in German).
Three generations of an architect family gather in 1958 for the 80th birthday of patriarch Heinrich Fähmel: he built an abbey, his son Robert helped destroy it during the war, and his grandson Joseph takes part in its reconstruction. Böll crosses eras and voices to oppose individual conscience to the opportunistic majority.
The work was originally published in 1959; this edition is from 1974 and corresponds to number 991 in the dtv catalogue.
Suitable for readers interested in the post-war German novel, social criticism and moral reconstruction after the Second World War.
Heinrich Theodor Böll was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post–World War II writers, Böll received the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972).
