EAN: 9780241370384

THE TRAIN WAS ON TIME - HEINRICH BOLL KARTONIER...

The hauntingly beautiful first novel by Nobel Prize winning author Heinrich
BollTwenty-four-year-old Andreas  a disillusioned German soldier  is travelling on a troop
train to the Eastern Front when he has an awful premonition that he will die in exactly five
days. As he hurtles towards his death  he reflects on the chaos around him - the naïve soldiers
the painfully thin girl who pours his coffee  the ruined countryside - with sudden 
heart-breaking poignancy. Arriving in Poland the night before he is certain he will die  he
meets Olina  a beautiful prostitute  and together they attempt to escape his fate... 'His work
reaches the highest level of creative originality and stylistic perfection' Daily
Telegraph'Boll combines a mammoth intelligence with a literary outlook that is masterful and
unique' Joseph Heller  author of Catch-22'My most-admired contemporary novelist' John
Ashbery'From the moment I stepped on board the troop train with Private Andreas  concerns
pertaining to my own world fell away completely. Holding this impelling book is tantamount to
holding the young soldier's fate in one's hands. It is impossible to let go.' Claire-Louise
Bennett  author of Pond

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