Count Luna

A deliciously deranged thriller about supernatural vengeance and postwar guilt, by one of Austria’s most celebrated writers

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?

Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Publication date: 28/03/2024
Series: Penguin Modern Classics