The lost honor of Katharina Blum, or, How violence develops and where it can lead
By: Heinrich Böll ; translated by Leila Vennewitz ; introduction by Kurt Andersen.
Contributors: Vennewitz, Leila.
Series: Penguin classics; Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
ISBN-13: 9780143105404
Subjects: Young women -- Germany -- Fiction; Tabloid newspapers -- Germany -- Fiction; Sensationalism in journalism -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Other titles: How violence develops and where it can lead
Work titles: Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum.
Description: "In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Henrich Ḇll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum has taken on heightened relevance. A young woman's association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare. Turning the mystery genre on its head, the novel begins with the confession of a crime, drawing the reader into a web of sensationalism, character assassination, and the unavoidable eruption of violence."--Amazon.com.