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Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll''s powerful novel about a woman terrorized by the media

A Penguin Classic

In 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 woman''s association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare. Turning the mystery genre on its head, the novel begins with the confession of a crime, drawing the reader into a web of sensationalism, character assassination, and the unavoidable eruption of violence.

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      Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
      Publication Date: 29/09/2009
      ISBN13: 9780143105404, 978-0143105404
      ISBN10: 014310540X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll''s powerful novel about a woman terrorized by the media

      A Penguin Classic

      In 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 woman''s association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare. Turning the mystery genre on its head, the novel begins with the confession of a crime, drawing the reader into a web of sensationalism, character assassination, and the unavoidable eruption of violence.

      For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best wo

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