COUNT LUNA

A book so astonishing that I immediately reread it fearful it might disappear Patti SmithThe war is over but Alexander Jessiersky a wealthy Austrian aristocrat and industrialist is haunted by guilt over the neighbour he inadvertently sent to a concentration camp Count Luna What s more he is convinced that Luna survived and is out to get his revenge So begins a wild weird cat and mouse chase that takes him and his shadowy nemesis through windswept valleys eerie houses and eventually Rome s catacombs as an increasingly paranoid Jessiersky asks himself will Luna stop at nothing to exact his bloody vengeance Crazed raging and darkly comic Count Luna is a reckoning with postwar guilt and an irresistible tale of the uncanny Like Kafka Lernet Holenia weaves his most intimate hopes and dreams with exquisitely imagined detail Chicago Tribune