The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Heinrich Böll 17,762 ratings
1,199 reviews
Katharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working. After falling in love with a young radical on the run from the police, she is portrayed by the city's leading newspaper as a whore, a communist and an atheist, and becomes the target of anonymous phone calls. Her life ruined by the distortions of a corrupt press, she shoots the offending journalist. . .
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FictionGerman LiteratureClassicsGermanyLiteratureNobel PrizeNovels20th CenturyCrimeSchool
141 Pages