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Count Luna

Alexander Lernet-Holenia


  • Penguin Modern Classics
  • 9780241649541 | EN | PB
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.

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Publisher Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN 9780241649541
Publication date March 2024
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 198 x 129 mm
Pages 160
Language(s) English ed.
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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?