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Count Luna

By Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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A deliciously deranged thriller about supernatural vengeance and postwar guilt, by one of Austria's most celebrated writers. Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate, finds the Nazis distasteful. However, in war and in business, distaste can lead to negligence. When Jessiersky's board of directors sends his... Read More
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Count Luna

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A deliciously deranged thriller about supernatural vengeance and postwar guilt, by one of Austria's most celebrated writers.

Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate, finds the Nazis distasteful. However, in war and in business, distaste can lead to negligence. When Jessiersky's board of directors sends his mysterious neighbour, Count Luna, to a concentration camp on trumped-up charges in order to seize his land, Jessiersky can't shake the feeling that Count Luna blames him. After the war ends, Jessiersky is haunted by the fear that Count Luna will seek revenge.

So begins a wild, weird and witty cat-and-mouse chase through windswept moors, shadow-filled houses, and, eventually, the catacombs of Rome. An increasingly paranoid Jessiersky asks himself: who is Count Luna? Where is he hiding? And will he stop at nothing—not even the edges of the plausible and canny—to exact his bloody vengeance?

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241649541

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 March 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Jane B. Greene

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 126g

Pages: 160

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Alexander Lernet-Holenia Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Classics

About the Author

Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Author) Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protege of Rainer Maria Rilke. During his life he wrote poetry, novels, plays and was a successful screenwriter. His books were included on the first Nazi blacklist and subsequently burned, but after the end of the Second World War, he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life. Jane B. Greene (Translator) Jane B. Greene was a translator best known for her translations of Count Luna by Alexander Lernet-Holenia and Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910.

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