Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948.
The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests.
Odysseus Cotton, a black man, alights at the station and hires a porter; Frau Behrend disowns her daughter; with their interracial love affair, Carla Behrend and Washington Price s.
New Directions Publishing Corporation Pigeons on the grass, paperback/wolfgang koeppen
