num_pages: 140
description: In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a big story, Henrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum has taken on heightened relevance. A young woman's association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab the 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.Turning the mystery genre on its head, the novel begins with the confession of a crime, drawing the reader into a web of sensationalism, character assassination, and the unavoidable eruption of violence.
language: English
title: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
titlecomplete: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
characters: Walter Möding, Werner Tötges, Else Woltersheim, Katharina Blum, Trude Blorna, Ludwig Götten, Erwin Beizmenne, Alois Sträubleder, Dr. Hubert Blorna
genres: Germany, 20th Century, Nobel Prize, Novels, School, Crime, Literature, German Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 15081
places: Germany
publisher: Penguin Classics