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A collection of six short stories that explore the moral, social, and political themes of postwar Germany, marked by Böll's sharp critical eye and empathy for the common man. An afterword by Viktor Žmegač contextualizes the works within Böll's oeuvre.
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.
The collection of 26 short stories by Heinrich Böll, winner of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature, includes a series of narratives that explore human destiny in the context of war, post-war reconstruction, and social change in Germany.
It Happened on All Saints' Day (1969) is a crime novel starring Hercule Poirot. The story takes place in the English town of Woodleigh Common, where a murder occurs during a children's Halloween party.
The novel "Nana" by Emil Zola is a story about false love, about feigned passion and lust, greed and all emotions related to possessing material things. Everything is embodied in the figure of a woman, possessed of all the vices that society condemns.
The novel takes place in the 19th century, and tells the story of two young friends, the fourteen-year-old Pole Stanislaw and his eight-year-old friend Nel from England, who were kidnapped in Sudan by the rebels of the Muslim priest Mahdi.