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FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE Katharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when she falls in love with a young radical on the run from the police. Portrayed by the city's leading newspaper as a whore, a communist and an atheist, she becomes the target of anonymous phone calls and sexual threats. Blum's life is systematically undone by the distortions of a corrupt press, concerned only with presenting the most salacious story. This is a chilling and unforgettable novel from a Nobel Prize-winning writer.
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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Heinrich Böll
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- Released
- 2000
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Heinrich Böll
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0749398981
- ISBN13
- 9780749398989
- Series
- Collection
- 3x (Odeon)
- Tags
- Fiction, Classics, German Literature, Germany, Murders, Society, Journalism, Novellas, Social Critique, Required Reading, Media and Media Communication, Nobel prize, Honor, Tabloid Press
- First published
- 1974
- Original title
- Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
- Rating
- 3.65 out of 5
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- FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE Katharina Blum is pretty, bright, hard-working and at the centre of a big city scandal when she falls in love with a young radical on the run from the police. Portrayed by the city's leading newspaper as a whore, a communist and an atheist, she becomes the target of anonymous phone calls and sexual threats. Blum's life is systematically undone by the distortions of a corrupt press, concerned only with presenting the most salacious story. This is a chilling and unforgettable novel from a Nobel Prize-winning writer.