“We stood there for about two hours, jammed together, and all I remember is hands: trading hands, passing soap from right to left, from left to right, money from left to right and again from right to left; it was as if I had fallen into a snakepit; hands from all sides moved every which way, passing goods and money over my shoulders and over my head in every direction.”
Böll’s work consisting of two novellas which use strikingly different narratives to portray World War II's impact on the German people.
Author: Heinrich Böll
Title: Absent Without Leave
Edition:: First American Edition, first printing
Published: New York et al: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 148p
Condition: Very good condition dust jacket with mild rubbing to surfaces and toning—in new dust jacket cover. Very good condition copy with mild edge wear to boards, some crushing at spine ends, and toning. Bookplate on front paste-down. Date and old bookseller sticker on front free end-paper.
Comments: Very clean copy
