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Book SynopsisAt once a chase novel, black comedy, and softly keening death song, Count Luna starts off at a gallop and accelerates into warp speed
Trade Review"Daunting panache, fast-moving, cleverly convoluted, terrific." -- Eileen Battersby - Irish Times
"Austrian writer Lernet-Holenia (Mona Lisa, 1897–1976) addresses guilt over WWII in this masterly novel, originally published in 1955....Lernet-Holenia’s dark humor propels the narrative, and Jessiersky’s obsession is expertly handled, leading to a wholly unexpected conclusion. Driven by intense psychological descriptions, this tale of inaction against injustice has aged quite well." -- Publishers Weekly (starred)
"In
Count Luna, an industrialist inadvertently responsible for sending a man to a concentration camp feels certain that the fellow survived the war and is mounting a shadowy campaign of revenge. Like Kafka, whom he otherwise does not resemble, Lernet-Holenia weaves his most intimate hopes and dreams into the texture of what happens next with exquisitely imagined detail." -- The Chicago Tribune
"Brilliant, extra stylish, excellently written and fearsomely gripping." -- The London Times
