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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2024 |
| Seiten | 160 |
| Format | 12,9 x 19,8 x 0,8 cm |
| B-format paperback | |
| Gewicht | 126 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Penguin Modern Classics |
| EAN | 9780241649541 |
| Bestell-Nr | 24164954EA |
'A book so astonishing that I immediately reread it, fearful it might disappear' Patti Smith
The war is over but Alexander Jessiersky, a wealthy Austrian aristocrat and industrialist, is haunted by guilt over the neighbour he inadvertently sent to a concentration camp, Count Luna. What's more, he is convinced that Luna survived - and is out to get his revenge. So begins a wild, weird cat-and-mouse chase that takes him and his shadowy nemesis through windswept valleys, eerie houses and, eventually, Rome's catacombs, as an increasingly paranoid Jessiersky asks himself: will Luna stop at nothing to exact his bloody vengeance? Crazed, raging and darkly comic, Count Luna is a reckoning with postwar guilt, and an irresistible tale of the uncanny.
'Like Kafka ... Lernet-Holenia weaves his most intimate hopes and dreams ... with exquisitely imagined detail' Chicago Tribune
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A book so astonishing that I immediately re-read it, fearful it might disappear Patti Smith
