Count Luna

Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate, finds the Nazis distasteful - but 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 - and, after the war ends, that Count Luna will have his revenge. So begins a wild, weird and witty cat-and-mouse chase through windswept moors, shadow-filled houses and, eventually, the catacombs of Rome, as 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 venegance?>

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 protégé 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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Product details

• Authors: Alexander Lernet-Holenia
• Assisted by: Jane B. Greene (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.10.2023
• EAN: 9780241649541
• ISBN: 978-0-241-64954-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Rome, Vienna, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / World Literature / Austria