num_pages: 255
description: ACE for this edition is in here.Boll's well-known, vehement opposition to fascism and war informs this moving story of Robert Faehmel. After being drawn into the Second World War to command retreating German forces despite his anti-Nazi feelings, Faehmel struggles to re-establish a normal life at war's end. He adheres to a rigorous schedule, including a daily game of billiards. When his routine is breached by an old friend, now a power in German reconstruction, Faehmel is forced to confront both public and private memories.
language: English
title: Billiards at Half Past Nine
titlecomplete: Billiards at Half Past Nine
characters: Schrella, Nettlinger, Robert Faehmel
genres: Fiction, War, German Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Germany, Historical Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 4300
places: Germany
publisher: Calder & Boyars