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Little Apple: A Novel
Leo Perutz
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Description for Little Apple: A Novel
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Vittorin, a young Austrian officer, has just been released from a Russian POW camp toward the end of the Great War. In Vienna his family, his girlfriend, and his old job await him, but Vittorin can't think of settling down until he has settled the score with the sadistic camp commander, Staff Captain Selukov. Private obsession and political turmoil mix as Perutz leads his hero on a manhunt into the thick of the Russian civil war. In and out of prison, starving in the gutters of Moscow, thrown into revolutionary battle, Vittorin pursues his elusive quarry across postwar Europe. At ... Read more
Vittorin, a young Austrian officer, has just been released from a Russian POW camp toward the end of the Great War. In Vienna his family, his girlfriend, and his old job await him, but Vittorin can't think of settling down until he has settled the score with the sadistic camp commander, Staff Captain Selukov. Private obsession and political turmoil mix as Perutz leads his hero on a manhunt into the thick of the Russian civil war. In and out of prison, starving in the gutters of Moscow, thrown into revolutionary battle, Vittorin pursues his elusive quarry across postwar Europe. At ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781611458459
SKU
V9781611458459
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About Leo Perutz
Leo Perutz is the author of eleven novels that attracted the admiration of such writers as Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, Italo Calvino, and Jorge Luis Borges. He was born in Prague in 1882 and lived in Vienna until the Nazi Anschluss, when he fled to Palestine. He returned to Austria in the fifties and died in 1957.
Reviews for Little Apple: A Novel
A travels-in-hell Baedeker of revolutionary Russia. The New York Times Book Review A fascinating novel, old-fashioned in the best sense in that it tells a tale, and truly modern in the way that the tale is told ... First rate. Los Angeles Times