Billard um halb zehn

Heinrich Böll First published 1959

About this book

After being drawn into the Second World War to command retreating German forces despite his anti-Nazi feelings, Faehmel struggles to re-establish a normal life at war's end by creating a rigorous routine for himself, which includes a daily game of billiards.

Subjects

fiction
fiction, general
german fiction
manners and customs
reconstruction (1939-1951)
social conditions
social life and customs