One character in this novel deliberately drives up to a sign marked DEATH after finding the letters XYZX in a corner of a painting of the Last Supper. Another character always has a daily breakfast of paprika cheese at the Café Kroner. Old Wobbly and Nettlinger kill Ferdi Progulske and torture Schrella when they refuse to take "The Host of the Beast," and the protagonist's central act is motivated by desire to revenge the deaths of "lambs" like his wife Edith. Upon escaping a mental asylum, Johanna tries to assassinate a German politician, while Joseph begins to reconstruct his grandfather Hei
One character in this novel deliberately drives up to a sign marked DEATH after finding the letters XYZX in a corner of a painting of the Last Supper. Another character always has a daily breakfast of paprika cheese at the Café Kroner. Old Wobbly and Nettlinger kill Ferdi Progulske and torture Schrella when they refuse to take "The Host of the Beast," and the protagonist's central act is motivated by desire to revenge the deaths of "lambs" like his wife Edith. Upon escaping a mental asylum, Johanna tries to assassinate a German politician, while Joseph begins to reconstruct his grandfather Heinrich's main achievement, St. Anthony's Abbey, which was blown up during World War II by Heinrich's son. Named for the game Robert Faehmel plays at a certain time every morning, FTP, name this novel by Heinrich Boll.
One character in this novel deliberately drives up to a sign marked DEATH after finding the letters XYZX in a corner of a painting of the Last Supper.
{Billiards at Half-Past Nine} or {Billard um Halbzehn}