The Castle in the Forest av Norman Mailer

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The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Adolf from birth through adolescence and offers revealing portraits of Hitler’s parents and siblings. A crucial reflection on the shadows that eclipsed the twentieth century, Mailer’s novel<i></i>delivers myriad twists and surprises along with characteristically astonishing insights into the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all.<br> <br><b>Praise for <i>The Castle in the Forest</i></b><br><i> </i><br>“This remarkable novel about the young Adolf Hitler, his family and their shifting circumstances, is Mailer’s most perfect apprehension of the absolutely alien. . . . Mailer doesn’t inhabit these historical figures so much as possess them.”<b>—<i>The New York Times Book Review</i