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Name: Pigeons on the Grass

Author: Wolfgang Koeppen
Year: 1951
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Classic
Culture: Germany

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ISBNs:
9780841912915
0841912912

Here is an English translation of a post-war German classic. The events of the novel take place during the course of a single day in an unnamed city in occupied Germany where the endless drone of allied planes overhead increases the already heightened tension. Throughout this powerful narrative, the characters' experiences ultimately reveal how and at what cost Germans in the 1950s, by failing to confront their recent past, blinded themselves to its after effects.

This book is part of the "Trilogy of Failure" series. Here are some other books from this series:

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First published in 1954
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"The Hothouse"
First published in 1953
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