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'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
| EAN: | 9780241649541 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 28.03.2024 |
| Titel der Reihe: | Penguin Modern Classics## |
| Autoren: | Lernet-Holenia, Alexander |
| Übersetzung: | Greene, Jane B. |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 149 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Literary |
| Keyword: | mystery; alfred hitchcock; europe; germany; world war two; concentration camp; ghost story; baron bagge; patti smith; john le carre; m.r. james; nazis; postwar; austria; wes anderson; joseph roth; stefan zweig; franz kafka; robert musil; the radetzky march; chess; thomas mann; roberto calasso; catacombs; cat and mouse; thriller; hitorical thriller; roman fiction; modern ghost stories; mystery thriller; horror film; ww2 fiction fiction; venice fiction; classic; war; literary fiction; wwii; ww2 |
| Fachschema: | Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Österreichische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Rom (Stadt) / Roman, Erzählung~Weltkrieg 1939/45 / Roman, Erzählung~Wien / Roman, Erzählung, Mundart, Comic, Humor |
| Fachkategorie: | Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik~Klassische Belletristik~Belletristik in Übersetzung~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Psychologisches Innenleben |
| Imprint-Titels: | Penguin Classics |
| Länge: | 191 mm |
| Breite: | 130 mm |
| Höhe: | 12 mm |