What's to Become of the Boy?: Or, Something to Do with Books

Authors: Boll, Heinrich
Publisher: Melville House
BISAC/Subject: BIO026000, BIO007000, HIS014000
ISBN: 9781612190112, Related ISBNs: 1612190014, 1612190111, 9781612190013, 9781612190112
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 96,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: A vivid account of growing up poor, rebellious, and anti-Fascist in Nazi Germany

What’s to Become of the Boy? is a spirited, insightful, and wonderfully sympathetic memoir about life during wartime written with the characteristic brilliance by one of the 20th-century’s most celebrated authors. It is both an essential autobiography of the Nobel Prizewinning author and a compelling memoir of being young and idealistic during an age of hardship and war.
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