'A book so astonishing that I immediately reread it fearful it might disappear' Patti SmithThe
war is over but Alexander Jessiersky a wealthy Austrian aristocrat and industrialist is
haunted by guilt over the neighbour he inadvertently sent to a concentration camp Count Luna.
What's more he is convinced that Luna survived - and is out to get his revenge. So begins a
wild weird cat-and-mouse chase that takes him and his shadowy nemesis through windswept
valleys eerie houses and eventually Rome's catacombs as an increasingly paranoid Jessiersky
asks himself: will Luna stop at nothing to exact his bloody vengeance? Crazed raging and
darkly comic Count Luna is a reckoning with postwar guilt and an irresistible tale of the
uncanny. 'Like Kafka ... Lernet-Holenia weaves his most intimate hopes and dreams ... with
exquisitely imagined detail' Chicago Tribune
