num_pages: 192
description: Just days after the end of World War II, German soldier Hans Schnitzler returns to a bombed German city, carrying a dead comrade's coat to his widow-not knowing that the coat contains a will. Soon Hans is caught in a dangerous intrigue involving the will; he also begins a tentative romance with another grieving woman, as together they seek an identity and a future together in he ruined city.
language: English
title: The Silent Angel
titlecomplete: The Silent Angel
genres: Fiction, War, German Literature, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Novels, Germany, Historical Fiction, World War II
ratings_count: 934
publisher: Picador