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Death in Rome Wolfgang Koeppen ; translated with an introduction by Michael Hofmann

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York W.W. Norton & Company 2001Description: xii, 202 p. 20 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
ISBN:
  • 0393321940
Other title:
  • Tod in Rom. English
Summary: A former Nazi general, now training Arab terrorists, attends a family reunion in Rome, his son being a priest. The novel chronicles his disgust with a degenerate city which he knew as a conqueror and his attempt to get even with the Jews by seducing a barmaid, an attempt that backfires when she turns out to be a Catholic. By the author of Pigeons on the Grass
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single unit book single unit book HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – Basement – Library Hallway R (Reference collection) R:PT2621.O46 T613 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2023-4887
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R:PT2625.A44 Z32 1996 The Magic Mountain a novel R:PT2647.A64 A2 2012 Berlin stories R:TR654 .K45 2008 On Reading André Kertész R:PT2621.O46 T613 2001 Death in Rome R:PT2668.A5 M4513 1998 My year in the no-man's-bay R:PS3622.A68 T47 2003 There are Jews in my house R:PT2662.E94 K3513 2012 Kaltenburg

Translation of: Der Tod in Rom. - E

A former Nazi general, now training Arab terrorists, attends a family reunion in Rome, his son being a priest. The novel chronicles his disgust with a degenerate city which he knew as a conqueror and his attempt to get even with the Jews by seducing a barmaid, an attempt that backfires when she turns out to be a Catholic. By the author of Pigeons on the Grass

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