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The Castle in the Forest is the last novel by writer Norman Mailer, published in the year of his death, 2007. It is the story of Adolf Hitler's childhood as seen through the eyes of Dieter, a demon sent to put him on his destructive path.
- Norman Mailer
- 2007
Jan 1, 2007 · The Castle in the Forest is the memoir of a demon - Dieter, who was assigned by Satanic forces to influence young Adolph Hitler. It is also a biography of young Adolph Hitler and his family, told from the point of view of the demon.
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Jan 21, 2007 · This remarkable novel about the young Adolf Hitler, his family and their shifting circumstances, is Mailer’s most perfect apprehension of the absolutely alien. No...
The Castle in the Forest. Written by Norman Mailer. Review by Chuck Curtis. Mailer never rests on his laurels and never fails to shock and surprise. In this novel, the 84-year-old Pulitzer Prize winner describes the family that he imagined sired Adolf Hitler.
Jan 23, 2007 · A tapestry of unforgettable characters, The Castle in the Forest delivers its playful twists and surprises with astonishing insight into the nature of the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all. At its core is a hypothesis that propels this novel and makes it a work of stunning originality.
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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 ...
The Castle in the Forest, his last novel, was his eleventh New York Times bestseller. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction...
