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These twenty-six stories illustrate Heinrich Boll's finely nuanced storytelling at its best. In stunning portraits of ordinary people, Boll creates a rich tapestry of the dark years in postwar Germany.
It cannot be denied that the truth is described in this book, that the gruesome scenes are only a mirror image of reality.
Conceived and realized as a separate unit, this novel can also be interpreted as the second part of the book "A Hero on a Donkey". To a greater extent than in "Hero", here the war "which was better" is presented as a giant burlesque and as a pool of demon
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