Böll wrote his first novel at the very beginning of the 50s, and it was published only 40 years later. Describing life in post-war Germany, the author contrasts greed and money-grubbing with the love of two tired people, exhausted by the hardships of war. Published in Russian for the first time. “This book does not at all change our understanding of Böll. On the contrary, it complements it and allows us to take a fresh look at the writer’s early work. “The angel was silent” is the key to understanding the novelist Heinrich Böll” - Frankfurter Allgemeine.