Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) was one of Germany's best-known and most respected novelists. His outstanding contribution to world literature and the leading part he played in the renewal of German literature received international recognition when, in 1972, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Of all the literary works written at the end of the 1940s, only The Silent Angel gives some idea of the depths of horror then threatening to overwhelm any who really looked at the ruins around them

Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) was one of Germany's best-known and most respected novelists. His outstanding contribution to world literature and the leading part he played in the renewal of German literature received international recognition when, in 1972, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Of all the literary works written at the end of the 1940s, only The Silent Angel gives some idea of the depths of horror then threatening to overwhelm any who really looked at the ruins around them

Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) was one of Germany's best-known and most respected novelists. His outstanding contribution to world literature and the leading part he played in the renewal of German literature received international recognition when, in 1972, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Of all the literary works written at the end of the 1940s, only The Silent Angel gives some idea of the depths of horror then threatening to overwhelm any who really looked at the ruins around them