ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1966
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Hans Hellmut Kirst - What Became of Gunner Asch
Fontana, 1966
285 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro, potpis na predlistu.

Explosive, often hilarious tale of a desperate manhunt, triggered in an off-base bordello.

Continues the saga of Gunner Asch, now the mayor of a small West German town, the seat of an Air Force base and a rival barracks of a Grenadier regiment. When inter-service jealousies, private ambitions and personal animosities combine, Asch must halt the inexorable march of events toward a court-martial.

`A superb novel about murder-three murders in fact, each involving a sadistically disfigured prostitute that is also a bitterly comic study of the German officer class, a serious statement by example of the difference between a soldier and a man, an appalling portrait of a heroic psychopath, a bloodhound detective thriller, and a thoroughly rational love story. The setting is Warsaw in 1942, Paris in 1944, and Berlin in 1956. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.`
The New Yorker
`The Night of the Generals is as engrossing a thriller as John Le Carre`s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold... It crackles with sardonic humor and bristles with quantities of furious satire and much moral indignation. To mistake this arresting novel for just a superior detective story would be as gross a critical blunder as to read Crime and Punishment solely as a melodrama about a murderer and a detective.... The narrative drive of Mr. Kirst`s cautionary tale is breathless.... Seldom is so bitter and serious a novel so shrewdly entertaining.`
-ORVILLE PRESCOTT, The New York Times
`... A spellbinding narrative that often achieves the immediacy of a newspaper story with a Berlin deadline exceedingly funny. ... The Night of the Generals is first of all a superbly written thriller.`
-Saturday Review
`My favorite novel so far this season is one that seems to offer just about everything-murder, espionage, social satire, a savage portrait of highly placed members of the Wehrmacht. If you labeled [Kirst] a German Graham Greene, you wouldn`t be far off.... Highly recommended.`
-WILLIAM HOGAN, San Francisco Chronicle
`The Night of the Generals is the best murder-cum-espionage thriller of the year... a remarkable book.`
-Chicago Daily News
`One is gripped in a narrative half-Nelson Tanz of the elite Nibelungen Division, a hero with the mien of a mountaineer, is the most blood-curdling literary portrait since the captain of the Caine.`
-Manchester Guardian

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Hans Hellmut Kirst
A veteran from WW II, he wrote various novels focused on military life and the corruption in the army.


Fiction, Historical Fiction