Count Luna
€16.00
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780241649541 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Lernet-Holenia |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.126 |
| Publishing Date | 28/03/2024 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €15.09 |
| Tax | €0.91 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €16.00 |
| Availability | 7 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
''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