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The Train Was On Time

The Train Was On Time

by Heinrich Boll
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/04/2019

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A hauntingly beautiful tale of a young German soldier confronting his fate, from a Nobel Prize-winning author.

Twenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is travelling on a troop train to the Eastern Front when he has an awful premonition that he will die in exactly five days.

As he hurtles towards his death, he reflects on the chaos around him - the naïve soldiers, the painfully thin girl who pours his coffee, the ruined countryside - with sudden, heart-breaking poignancy.

Arriving in Poland the night before he is certain he will die, he meets Olina, a beautiful prostitute, and together they attempt to escape his fate...

ISBN:
9780241370384
9780241370384
Category:
Fiction in translation
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-04-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
128
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x7mm
Weight:
0.1kg
Heinrich Boll

Heinrich Böll was one of the trio of great German writers (along with Thomas Mann and Herman Hesse) who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Böll was born in Cologne in 1917 and brought up in a liberal Catholic pacifist family. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he served on the Russian and French fronts and was wounded four times before he found himself in an American prisoner-of-war camp.

After the war he enrolled at the University of Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experience as a soldier. His first novel, The Train Was On Time, was published in 1949, and he went on to become one of the most prolific and important of post-war German writers.

His best-known novels include Billiards at Half-past Nine, Children are Civilians Too, Group Portrait with Lady, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, And Never Said a Word and The Safety Net. Böll served for several years as president of International P.E.N. and was a leading defender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world. He died in 1985.

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