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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead - Penguin Twentieth Century Classics
Author: Heinrich Boll, Leila Vennewitz (Translator)
In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a big story, Henrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum has taken on heightened relevance. — A young woman's association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab the headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As th...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780140187281
ISBN-10: 0140187286
Publication Date: 6/1/1994
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Penguin Classics
Book Type: Paperback
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An experimental novel, set in Germany, about a girl who murders a journalist because of the smear campaign he wages against her. Literary, and not a simple book, the short chapters make it easier to read.
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