Where have you been, Adam? (1951)"Where have you been, Adam?" "In the trenches, for God's sake, at war." A landmark anti-fascist novel that turned a young author who survived World War II into a literary classic of the twentieth century. The year is 1945. The war started by Germany has returned to its territory. Shells explode, bombs fall on towns and villages. And exhausted people who have woken up from the monstrous lies of Hitler's propaganda are trying to survive... Nine chapters are stories about people caught in the millstones of war, about human suffering and love, hope and hopelessness, life and death. Traveler, when you come to Spa . . . (1950) 25 short stories by the great Heinrich Bell, united by the theme of war, which is perceived by the author much more broadly than only the Second World War. 25 stories about unhappy boys crippled by a war that they did not choose for themselves, but which chose them. 25 episodes about the inexpressible longing for loved ones who passed away, about a sense of hopelessness, but at the same time about forgiving love and hope. 25 tiny grains that complement the picture of that very world — shaky and elusive…