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

By:

Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996 [aut]

Contributor(s):

Hofmann, Michael, 1957- [oth]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
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

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