Women in a River Landscape: A Novel in Dialogues & Soliloquies

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [xii], 207, [3]. Green cloth boards lettered in gilt to spine. Jacket design by Louise Fili.

Translated by David McLintock from the original German publication, Frauen vor Flusslandschaft.

Böll's blistering indictment of pre-unification Germany, which he saw as infected with post-war corruption and malaise, set in the inner circles of government and industry. The 1972 Nobel laureate's final book, published posthumously. His novels include Billiards at Half-past Nine, The Clown, Group Portrait with Lady, and The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, some of which have been turned into films.

"This book typifies Böll's virtues: a bold inventiveness of form, a gritty anger at the world's corruption and injustice, a warmly humorous indulgence towards human fragility, a brave determination to face the facts without lecturing us about them. As a man and as a writer, he is sorely missed." –The Independent