Count Luna
Lernet-Holenia, Alexander, 1897-19762023
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At the start of WWII, Alexander Jessiersky, an Austrian aristocrat, heads a great Viennese shipping company. He detests the Nazis, and when his board of directors asks him to go along with confiscating a neighbour's large parcel of land for their thriving wartime business, Jessiersky refuses. Yet, without his knowledge, the board succeeds in sending the owner of the land, a certain Count Luna, to a Nazi concentration camp on a trumped-up charge. Years later the war is over, but after a series of mysterious events, Jessiersky, deeply paranoid, becomes convinced that Count Luna has survived and seeks vengeance; driven to kill the source of his dread, he decides to hunt down Luna - and his years-long chase after the spectral count finally takes him deep into the catacombs of Rome.
Main title:
Count Luna / Alexander Lernet-Holenia ; translated by Jane B. Greene.
Author:
Lernet-Holenia, Alexander, 1897-1976, authorGreene, Jane Bannard, translator
Imprint:
London : Penguin Classics, 2023.
Collation:
160 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780241649541 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
2647322
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