''Group Portrait with Lady'' (german: Gruppenbild mit Dame) is a novel by

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

winning author

Heinrich Böll Heinrich Theodor Böll (; 21 December 1917 – 16 July 1985) was a German writer. Considered one of Germany's foremost post-World War II writers, Böll is a recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize (1967) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1972). ...

, published in 1971. The novel revolves 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 Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

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.

External links

"Portrait of a woman, a city and modern Germany— Heinrich Böll's best novel", review by Richard Locke in New York Times, May 6, 1973
1971 German novels Novels by Heinrich Böll Novels set in Germany German novels adapted into films Kiepenheuer & Witsch books Novels set in the 1930s Novels set in the 1940s {{1970s-novel-stub