Billiards at HalfPast Nine Author:Heinrich Boll Böll's well-known opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of a single day in the life of traumatized soldier Robert Faehmel, scion of a family of successful Cologne architects, as he struggles to return to ordinary life after the Second World War. An encounter with a war-time nemesis, now a power in the reconstruction of... more » Germany, forces him to confront private memories and the wounds of Germany's defeat in the two World Wars.« less
ISBN-13: 9780070064010 ISBN-10: 0070064016 Publication Date: 1/1/1962 Pages:279 Edition:edition not noted. e Rating: