Billiards at Half-past Nine
first publication date: 1959
original title: Billard um halbzehn
original language: German
main subject: Allied-occupied Germany, Nazi Germany, Weimar Republic
narrative location: Cologne
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (German: Billard um halb zehn) is a 1959 novel by the German author Heinrich Böll. The entirety of the narrative takes place on a day in the autumn of 1958, with flashbacks, and characters' retellings from memory by the characters. It focuses on the Faehmel family's history, from the end of the 19th century, until that day; it largely reflects the opposition of the author (who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972) to the period of Nazism, as well as his aversion to war in general. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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3- date of publication: 2010-12-28ISBN-13: 978-1-935554-18-9
- date of publication: 1994ISBN-13: 978-0-14-018724-3
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