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Little Apple
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 Selyukov. 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 each turn, he encounters only Fate's joker, until, back in Vienna, Fate plays him the biggest joke of all.
Book Details
- Publisher: Arcade Publishing
- Publish Date: Jun 4th, 2013
- Pages: 199
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 0.62in - 0.57lb
- EAN: 9781611458459
- Categories: • General
About the Author
Perutz, Leo: - Leo Perutz, a contemporary of Franz Kafka, was born in Prague in 1882 and lived in Vienna until the Nazi Anschluss, when he fled to Palestine. He returned from Israel to Austria in the early fifties and died there in 1957. Now recognized as a twentieth-century master, he is the author of eleven novels that blend varying degrees of history, legend, suspense, and the fantastic.
Praise for this book
Perutz doesn't miss a detail. . . . As masterful an observer of societies in crisis as he is a creator of absurdly tragic situations.
A travels-in-hell Baedeker of revolutionary Russia.
Suspenseful . . . Perutz's gifts as a storyteller are in evidence.
An elaborate and thoroughly perverse revenge fantasy . . . Perutz has gift for terse, breathless narrative.
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.
Perutz doesn t miss a detail. . . . As masterful an observer of societies in crisis as he is a creator of absurdly tragic situations.
Suspenseful . . . Perutz s gifts as a storyteller are in evidence.