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Pendulum draws an inner map of the adventure of self-disclosure - of one's own inclinations, fears, desires, Love - one's own habitus, revealing, as never before, the secrets of the writer's workshop.
The work is based on a true event that occurred in Spain in 1933: Aurora Rodriguez killed her daughter Hildegart, a famous fighter for women's emancipation and a cult figure on the political scene of the time.
In Boll's novels, one of the central themes is the attempt to preserve basic moral values in a time of terror, as well as in a period of material prosperity and corruption.
A Cold War thriller that convincingly conveys the tense atmosphere in Germany after the end of World War II.