Alexander Lernet-Holenia Count Luna Paperback Book

A book so astonishing that I immediately reread it, fearful it might disappear Patti SmithThe 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. Whats more, he is convinced that Luna survived and is out to get his revenge. So begins a wild, weird catandmouse chase that takes him and his shadowy nemesis through windswept valleys, eerie houses and, eventually, Romes 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 ... LernetHolenia weaves his most intimate hopes and dreams ... with exquisitely imagined detail Chicago Tribune | Alexander Lernet-Holenia Count Luna Paperback Book