Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st US Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; [iv], v-viii, 182, [2] pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1994, New York
ISBN: 0312110642

[Book #34348]

A lovely First American Edition/First Printing, originally published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1992 in unread Fine condition in alike dust-jacket ;

Nobel Laurate Heinrich Böll's novel set in a bombed-out Cologne, but has been compared by modern critics to Sarajevo, Beirut, and Belfast. Initially suppressed in a Germany still recovering from the ravages of war, it was published as "Der Engel schwieg" forty years after World War II, here translated by Breon Mitchell