Death in Rome
Tod in Rom. English
Wolfgang Koeppen ; translated with an introduction by Michael Hofmann
- xii, 202 p. 20 cm
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