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I Was Jack Mortimer
Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Translated by Ignat Avsey
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R253
Discovery Miles 2 530
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A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a
hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the
throat. And though Sponer has so far committed no crime, he is
drawn into the late Jack Mortimer's life, and might not be able to
escape its tangles and intrigues before it is too late... Twice
filmed, I Was Jack Mortimer is a tale of misappropriated identity
as darkly captivating and twisting as the books of Patricia
Highsmith.
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Count Luna (Paperback)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Translated by Jane B. Greene
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R262
Discovery Miles 2 620
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Alexander Jessiersky, Austrian aristocrat and shipping magnate,
finds the Nazis distasteful - but in war and in business, distaste
can lead to negligence. When Jessiersky's board of directors sends
his mysterious neighbour Count Luna to a concentration camp on
trumped-up charges in order to seize his land, Jessiersky can't
shake the feeling that Count Luna blames him - and, after the war
ends, that Count Luna will have his revenge. So begins a wild,
weird and witty cat-and-mouse chase through windswept moors,
shadow-filled houses and, eventually, the catacombs of Rome, as an
increasingly paranoid Jessiersky asks himself: who is Count Luna?
Where is he hiding? And will he stop at nothing - not even the
edges of the plausible and canny - to exact his bloody venegance?
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Count Luna (Paperback)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Translated by Jane B. Greene
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R413
Discovery Miles 4 130
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At the start of WWII, Alexander Jessiersky, an Austrian aristocrat,
heads a great Viennese shipping company. He detests the Nazis, and
when his board of directors asks him to go along with confiscating
a neighbor's large parcel of land for their thriving wartime
business, Jessiersky refuses. Yet, without his knowledge, the board
succeeds in sending the owner of the land, a certain Count Luna, to
a Nazi concentration camp on a trumped-up charge. Years later the
war is over, but after a series of mysterious events, Jessiersky,
deeply paranoid, becomes convinced that Count Luna has survived and
seeks vengeance; driven to kill the source of his dread, he decides
to hunt down Luna-and his years-long chase after the spectral count
finally takes him deep into the catacombs of Rome... The nightmare
logic of Count Luna comes from deep within Jessiersky's festering
fears and serves up his brooding, insanity-spiced, delicious
disquisitions-on what the Etruscans knew, on cemeteries as
originally "sleeping places"-before coming at last to death itself:
"Well, well, well, thought Jessiersky, swallowing hard. So you do
die after all. You refuse to believe that someday you will die but
then you die. And you don't even notice it. And yet the fact that
you don't is the best thing about dying..."
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Baron Bagge (Paperback)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Translated by Richard Winston, Clara Winston; Foreword by Patti Smith
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R261
Discovery Miles 2 610
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during
the First World War, receives orders to ride into a platoon of
Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and
his brigade pass, unscathed, into a bizarrely peaceful land where
festivities are in full swing. There he meets Charlotte
Szent-Kiraly, and finds himself falling in a strange, enchanted
love - a love harrowed at its edges by the threat of the enemy, and
the peculiar fragility of this country's otherworldly peace . . .
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Baron Bagge (Hardcover)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Translated by Richard Winston, Clara Winston; Foreword by Patti Smith
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R286
Discovery Miles 2 860
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Described as 'a masterpiece' by Stefan Zweig, this extraordinary
novel of love, war, ghosts and memory features an introduction by
Patti Smith Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer in the Carpathian
Mountains during the First World War, receives orders from his
unhinged commander to ride into Russian machine guns. But instead
of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into
a peaceful, otherworldly country where festivities are in full
swing. There he meets Charlotte Szent-Kiraly, and finds himself
entangled in a strange love - a love harrowed at its edges by the
threat of the enemy, and intimations from his fellow officers about
the nature of his survival... Baron Bagge - Alexander
Lernet-Holenia's masterpiece - glimmers with a wintry, exquisite
light. A story of duty and desire, courage and stupidity, it is a
waking dream of a novel; haunting in every sense. This edition
includes an exchange between Lernet-Holenia and Stefan Zweig, one
of the novella's most stalwart champions. Preface by Patti Smith
Translated by Richard and Clara Winston
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I Was Jack Mortimer (Paperback)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Translated by Ignat Avsey
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R248
R203
Discovery Miles 2 030
Save R45 (18%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a
hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the
throat. And though Sponer has so far committed no crime, he is
drawn into the late Jack Mortimer's life, and might not be able to
escape its tangles and intrigues before it is too late... Twice
filmed, I Was Jack Mortimer is a tale of misappropriated identity
as darkly captivating and twisting as the books of Patricia
Highsmith.
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Baron Bagge (Paperback)
Alexander Lernet-Holenia; Translated by Clara & Richard Winston
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R414
R373
Discovery Miles 3 730
Save R41 (10%)
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A novel of love and valor, war and stupidity, life and death (as
well as what may lay beyond our mortal coils), Baron Bagge concerns
a young Austrian cavalry lieutenant in the Carpathian mountains at
the beginning of WWI. The baron leads a desperate charge across a
bridge to meet the Russian forces, following the orders of his
mentally unstable commander: "We were soon to have proof of his
unreliability... But perhaps it is not right to place the blame on
him. Perhaps his foolishness was merely the instrument of fate, and
the disaster into which he led his squadron, the slaughter of so
many men and horses, took place in order that something which could
no longer happen within the realm of the living-because it was too
late-could happen after life." And, swaying in a kind of fugue, the
baron wanders off the bridge into unknown realms, where-mesmerized
by Lernet-Holenia's phosphorescent style-the reader joins his
waking dream.
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