The Silent Angel

Of all the literary works written at the end of the 1940s, only The Silent Angel gives some idea of the depths of horror then threatening to overwhelm any who really looked at the ruins around them – W.G. Sebald
A beautiful, urgent novel … as perfect as anything Boll ever wrote – Alberto Manguel * The Washington Post Book World *
An impressive early achievement in the career of one of Europe’s twentieth century literary masters * Irish Times *
A work of art … In it the major themes of Böll’s career - marriage, religion and abuses of power that undermine both - are handled with a poetic authority rare to first-time novelists * New York Times *
This excellent novel is a story of love among the ruins * Sunday Times *
His first and possibly his finest novel * Herald *
So begins what was Nobel-winner Boll’s first novel, a touching love story and trenchant study of moral decay … lyrical, spare and somanbulisitic * Publishers Weekly *
Amazing and most eloquent … this gripping novella reads like a sketch for a masterpiece * Mail on Sunday *
Boll creates a brittle, intense love between two people who are bewildered that they still are capable of love – Ursula Hegi * LA Times *
We are in the hands of a master craftsman * Sunday Tribune *

Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) was one of Germany’s best-known and most respected novelists. His outstanding contribution to world literature and the leading part he played in the renewal of German literature received international recognition when, in 1972, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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