Heinrich Böll

"¡Bienvenido a otro volumen de la Colección Mejores! Cuentos, una selección de relatos escritos en diferentes épocas por autores de diversas nacionalidades y con temas muy variados, pero que comparten una cualidad literaria enorme y quizás la más importante: la de brindar placer al lector. En este ebook, presentamos los Mejores Cuentos Alemanes, , una selección de relatos memorables escritos por grandes autores de cuentos franceses, tanto antiguos...

A German soldier returns home at the end of World War II. The novel follows him through the ruins of Cologne, searching for the widow of a man who died in his place. This was the Nobel Prize winner's first novel, only now translated into English.

Tells of three generations of architects and their responses to the Nazi regime and its aftermath, with the present-day action taking place on the 80th birthday of patriarch Heinrich Fahmel, who built St. Anthony's Abbey. At the end of World War II, his son Robert destroyed the abbey to protest the church's complicity with the Nazis; Robert's son, Joseph, is serving his apprenticeship by helping to restore St. Anthony's. All three characters confront...

At the center of a terrorized society buttressed by oppressive police protection and surveillance is the Tolm family, Fritz, the father, the elected head of the Association, and the children, part of the counter-culture.

A young woman's association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare.

Early stories by a German writer on life during World War II. In Fugitive, an army chaplain betrays a deserter, Trapped in Paris is a love story between a German and a Frenchwoman, and the title story is on the way war brutalizes men.