The Castle in the Forest

Norman Mailer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2008 | Airside ed
Little, Brown & Company (Verlag)
978-0-316-02738-0 (ISBN)

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* A bold and darkly funny novel about the family and early life of Adolf Hitler

Who was Adolf Hitler? It's a question writers have been trying to answer for more than sixty years. But after thousands of biographies, histories, novels, and films, many fundamental questions remain: How do we explain Hitler's hatred? Where did it come from? Could it happen again? Norman Mailer sets out to respond to these and other crucial aspects of Hitler's personality in his compulsively readable new novel. Spanning three generations, and a hundred years of history, the book brings to life the Hitlers ? grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and, ultimately, young Adolf ? in an energetic and wildly entertaining family saga. Mailer recounts the marriages, incestuous couplings, estrangements, afflictions, and deaths that lead to the birth of young Adolf in 1889. Told in the voice of a mysterious (and unreliable) narrator, this playful yet profound novel blends fact and fiction in a stirring family tale that will cause the reader to re-examine his preconceived ideas about Hitler and the nature of his evil.

Norman Mailer, born in 1923, published his first book,THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, in 1948. THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1969; Mailer received another Pulitzer in 1980 for THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG. He has written

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2008
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-316-02738-3 / 0316027383
ISBN-13	978-0-316-02738-0 / 9780316027380
Zustand	Neuware