The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum Author:Heinrich Boll Following a brief encounter with a man wanted by the police, the hitherto unremarkable Katharina Blum becomes the object of a smear campaign conducted by an unscrupulous newspaper. Labelled a whore, communist sympathizer and atheist, her life is ruined; her privacy and reputation systematically destroyed. In the formal, but not unsympathetic, ... more »manner of a police report, Heinrich Boll traces events as they lead to their violent conclusion.« less