num_pages: 146
description: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum , How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead was written by Heinrich Boll, one of Germany's most prolific postwar writers. Although Boll insisted that his characters were compositions and not psychological creations, they do have psychological reality. In this novel he tells the story of pretty, bright, young Katharina Blum, who becomes the center of intrigue with a big city newspaper when at a carnival party she falls in love with a young radical lawbreaker on the run from the police.
language: English
title: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
titlecomplete: The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (Transaction Large Print Books)
characters: Trude Blorna, Else Woltersheim, Erwin Beizmenne, Walter Möding, Dr. Hubert Blorna, Katharina Blum, Alois Sträubleder, Ludwig Götten, Werner Tötges
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, School, Crime, German Literature, Nobel Prize, Germany, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 15089
places: Germany
publisher: Transaction Pub Large Print