num_pages: 195
description: First published in 1953, And Never Said a Word is one of Heinrich Böll's finest novels. He explores the extremities of marriage with depth and compassion. Böll evokes an entire emotional world in the space of a day and a half, as husband and wife alternately relate this story of love and isolation, poverty and injustice. Weakness, as well as strength, provides the subtle emotional threads that weave the bonds of their love; married life, they discover, takes a far greater toll on all those who truly love than on those whose hearts are empty. Böll writes with a moral resonance that extracts significance from the most commonplace lives.
language: English
title: And Never Said a Word
titlecomplete: And Never Said a Word
characters: Käte Bogner, Fred Bogner, Mrs. Franke
genres: Classics, Roman, Nobel Prize, Novels, German Literature, Germany, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 1898
places: Germany
publisher: Northwestern University Press