Group Portrait with Lady

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Group Portrait with Lady (German: Gruppenbild mit Dame) is a novel by Nobel prize winning author Heinrich Böll, published in 1971. The novel centers 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 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.