The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, or How Violence Develops and Where it Can Lead by Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz, Kurt Andersen

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, or How Violence Develops and Where it Can Lead

Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz, Kurt Andersen

fiction classics mysterious reflective slow-paced

103 pages | first published 1974

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Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll's powerful novel about a woman terrorized by the mediaIn an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a story, Henrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum has taken on heightened relevance. A young...
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reflective 54%
dark 49%
tense 40%
mysterious 30%
challenging 23%
informative 20%
sad 20%
emotional 16%
funny 5%
hopeful 3%
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inspiring 1%
lighthearted 1%

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slow 15%

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