Description
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 extraordinary new novel. Spanning three generations and a hundred years of history, the book brings to life the Hitlers - grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, siblings and young Adolf - in an energetic and highly entertaining family saga. Mailer recounts the marriages, incestuous couplings, estrangements, afflictions and deaths that lead to the birth of little Adi in 1889. Told in the voice of a narrator who in time reveals himself as an assistant to the Devil, this playful yet profound novel blends fact and fiction in an incomparable family tale that will cause readers to re-examine their preconceived ideas about Hitler and the nature of his evil.
ISBN:9780316027380
