Four members of a German family are reunited in the decaying beauty of postwar Rome - a composer, Siegfried, his estranged father, Friedrich, his uncle Judejahn, a former SS general who now trains the army of an Arab state, and Judejahn's renegade son, Adolf, training for priesthood.
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Wolfgang Koeppen's (1906-1996) The Hothouse was named one of the Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book. For his translations, acclaimed poet Michael Hofmann has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Dublin International IMPAC Award, the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, the Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and The Schlegel-Tieck Prize (four times). He is the highly acclaimed translator of, among others, Kafka, Brecht, and Joseph Roth.
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