- Summary
- A former Nazi general, now training Arab terrorists, attends a family reunion in Rome, his son being a priest. The novel chronicles his disgust with a degenerate city which he knew as a conqueror and his attempt to get even with the Jews by seducing a barmaid, an attempt that backfires when she turns out to be a Catholic. By the author of Pigeons on the Grass.
- Uniform Title
- Tod in Rom. English
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996.
- Published
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2001
- Locale
- Italy
Rome
Rome (Italy)
- Other Authors/Editors
- Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25-
- Notes
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Translation of: Der Tod in Rom.
"This translation first published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton 1992. First published as a Norton paperback 2001"--T.p. verso.