Count Luna by Alexander LernetHolenia Paperback Book 9780241649541

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 uncannyLike Kafka LernetHolenia weaves his most intimate hopes and dreams with exquisitely imagined detail Chicago Tribune