Group Portrait With Lady (novel)

Group Portrait with Lady (German: Gruppenbild mit Dame) is a novel by Nobel Prize winning author Heinrich Böll, published in 1971. The novel centers around a woman named Leni, and her friends, foes, lovers, employers and others and in the end tells the stories of all these people in a small city in western Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. As is usual in Böll's novels, the main focus is the Nazi era, from the perspective of ordinary people.

The novel was adapted into a film in 1977.

Works by Heinrich Böll
Novels
  • The Train Was on Time
  • And Never Said a Word
  • The Bread of Those Early Years
  • Billiards at Half-past Nine
  • The Clown
  • Group Portrait with Lady
  • The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Short stories
  • "Murke's Collected Silences"
  • "Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral"
  • "Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We…"

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