num_pages: 156
description: Hitler's once great army is broken and demoralized, the end of the war is imminent--but still soldiers are rounded up like criminals and sent to the front. Jews are evacuated, guns are fired, shells explode. In this novel Böll paints war as a series of idiocies, senseless accidents, and bizarre coincidences related only through death.
language: English
title: And Where Were You, Adam?
titlecomplete: And Where Were You, Adam?
genres: Fiction, War, German Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Germany, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, World War II
ratings_count: 1054
places: Hungary
publisher: Northwestern University Press