In one of his novels, the protagonist fled from "buffaloes," but later returned and helped create a "field of fire." The protagonist asks his wife if she is pleased with receiving an umbrella, two books and a chocolate piano for Christmas in his story "And There Was the Evening and the Morning," and he also wrote of a veteran who convinced a bureaucrat the title body part cost the government thousands in "My Expensive Leg." In a novel by this author, the protagonist's mother vows to kill the leader of the (*) "blue-tunics," Ben Wackes, and her husband has breakfast every day at the Café Kroner. For 10 points, identify
In one of his novels, the protagonist fled from "buffaloes," but later returned and helped create a "field of fire." The protagonist asks his wife if she is pleased with receiving an umbrella, two books and a chocolate piano for Christmas in his story "And There Was the Evening and the Morning," and he also wrote of a veteran who convinced a bureaucrat the title body part cost the government thousands in "My Expensive Leg." In a novel by this author, the protagonist's mother vows to kill the leader of the (*) "blue-tunics," Ben Wackes, and her husband has breakfast every day at the Café Kroner. For 10 points, identify this author of Billiards at Half-Past Nine.
In one of his novels, the protagonist fled from "buffaloes," but later returned and helped create a "field of fire.
Heinrich {Boll}