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Also by Norman Mailer:

On God, October 2007
Hardcover
The Castle in the Forest, January 2007
Hardcover
The Naked and the Dead, August 2000
Paperback
The Executioner's Song, May 1998
Paperback
The Armies of the Night, January 1995
Paperback

THE CASTLE IN THE FOREST
By: Norman Mailer

Random House
January 2007
On Sale: January 23, 2007
Featuring: Adolf Hitler
496 pages
ISBN: 0394536495
EAN: 9780394536491
Hardcover
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Fiction

No career in modern American letters is at once so brilliant, varied, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects ranging from World War II to Ancient Egypt, from the march on the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe, from Henry Miller and Mohammad Ali to Jesus Christ. Now, in The Castle in the Forest, his first major work of fiction in more than a decade, Mailer offers what may be his consummate literary endeavor: He has set out to explore the evil of Adolf Hitler.

The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to be an exceptional presence, gives us young Adolf from birth, as well as Hitler’s father and mother, his sisters and brothers, and the intimate details of his childhood and adolescence.

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. Now, on the eve of his eighty-fourth birthday, Norman Mailer may well be saying more than he ever has before.

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