Angel Silence
About This Novel
"The Silence of Angels" is one of the most important post-war works by Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll. It was written in 1949 after the end of World War II. The writer himself experienced the war and was captured in a US prisoner of war camp. After Germany was defeated in 1945, he was freed and returned to his devastated hometown of Cologne. It can be said that this work is equivalent to a spiritual portrayal of the writer during that period. This book vividly reproduces the real life and suffering experience of the German people in the early post-war period through a series of encounters of a German soldier who returned from defeat in the process of searching for home, food, etc., And expresses the mental state of the German people in a specific period. The writing is delicate, cold, profound, and extremely realistic. It can be called a representative work of "ruin literature".
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