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The Castle in the Forest

By - Mailer, Norman
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Random House, New York, ©2007
ISBN 10 - 0316027383
ISBN 13 - 9780316027380
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - American fiction 21st century
Shelf No - 5
Call Number - 813.54 MAI
Physical Description - 477 pages ; 25 cm
Book Information
Who was Adolf Hitler? It's a question writers have been trying to answer for more than sixty years. But after thousands of biographies, histories, novels, and films, many fundamental questions remain: How do we explain Hitler's hatred? Where did it come from? Could it happen again? Norman Mailer sets out to respond to these and other crucial aspects of Hitler's personality in his compulsively readable new novel. Spanning three generations, and a hundred years of history, the book brings to life the Hitlers - grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and, ultimately, young Adolf - in an energetic and wildly entertaining family saga. Mailer recounts the marriages, incestuous couplings, estrangements, afflictions, and deaths that lead to the birth of young Adolf in 1889. Told in the voice of a mysterious (and unreliable) narrator, this playful yet profound novel blends fact and fiction in a stirring family tale that will cause the reader to re-examine his preconceived ideas about Hitler and the nature of his evil.

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