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Group Portrait with Lady (German:Gruppenbild mit Dame) is a 1971novel byNobel Prize winning authorHeinrich Böll.[1] The novel is concerned with a woman named Leni Pfieffer (née Gruyten) who faces eviction from her apartment building inCologne. It structured as a report compiled from interviews conducted by an unnamed author with Leni’s friends, family, employers, coworkers, and others, forming a detailed social portrait of life in Cologne from the 1910s to 1971.[2] Like many of Böll's novels, there is a particular focus on representing the Nazi era from the perspective of ordinary people.
The Nobel Prize committee referred toGroup Portrait with Lady as Böll’s "most grandly conceived work."[3]
The novel wasadapted into a film in 1977.
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