num_pages: 141
description: 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. . .
language: English
title: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
titlecomplete: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
characters: Erwin Beizmenne, Katharina Blum, Werner Tötges, Trude Blorna, Ludwig Götten, Walter Möding, Alois Sträubleder, Dr. Hubert Blorna, Else Woltersheim
genres: Fiction, German Literature, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Germany, 20th Century, Crime
ratings_count: 15086
places: Germany
publisher: Vintage Classics