The bread of those early years
/ Heinrich Böll ; translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz
- Evanston, IL : Northwestern University Press , 1976
- 134 p. ; 20 cm.
The masterful early work describes one day in the life of Walter Fendrich, a young washing-machine repairman. Wry, iconic, yet intensely felt, it is an enchanting love story set amid the spiritual wreckage and growing materialism of postwar Germany.