And Where Were You, Adam?
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the brutal and chaotic final days of World War II, And Where Were You, Adam? chronicles the disjointed journey of a group of German soldiers as they retreat across Eastern Europe, their lives intersecting in moments of tenderness, absurdity, and violence. Heinrich Böll presents a searing anti-war narrative through a series of loosely connected episodes, each centering on ordinary individuals — soldiers, prisoners, and civilians — caught in the grinding machinery of a senseless war, culminating in a tragedy of staggering irony: a man dying within sight of his own home. A Nobel Prize-winning author of immense moral authority, Böll writes with spare, unsentimental prose that cuts to the heart of human suffering and institutional cruelty, firmly establishing him as the conscience of postwar German literature. Structured as a mosaic of human experience rather than a conventional linear narrative, the novel argues powerfully that war's greatest crime is its waste — of life, of love, of everything ordinary and good. And Where Were You, Adam? stands as one of the most quietly devastating indictments of the Second World War ever written, leaving the reader to sit with its haunting final question long after the last page is turned.
Author: Heinrich Böll
Format: Paperback
Genre: WW2
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the brutal and chaotic final days of World War II, And Where Were You, Adam? chronicles the disjointed journey of a group of German soldiers as they retreat across Eastern Europe, their lives intersecting in moments of tenderness, absurdity, and violence. Heinrich Böll presents a searing anti-war narrative through a series of loosely connected episodes, each centering on ordinary individuals — soldiers, prisoners, and civilians — caught in the grinding machinery of a senseless war, culminating in a tragedy of staggering irony: a man dying within sight of his own home. A Nobel Prize-winning author of immense moral authority, Böll writes with spare, unsentimental prose that cuts to the heart of human suffering and institutional cruelty, firmly establishing him as the conscience of postwar German literature. Structured as a mosaic of human experience rather than a conventional linear narrative, the novel argues powerfully that war's greatest crime is its waste — of life, of love, of everything ordinary and good. And Where Were You, Adam? stands as one of the most quietly devastating indictments of the Second World War ever written, leaving the reader to sit with its haunting final question long after the last page is turned.