| Author/Contributor(s): | Koeppen, Wolfgang ; Hofmann, Michael |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Date: | 07/17/2002 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
A masterpiece by a writer long neglected in America, The Hothouse created a literary stir when it appeared in hardcover. Evoking comparisons to works by James Joyce and Malcolm Lowry, it traces the final two days in the life of a minor German politician, Keetenheuve, a man disillusioned by the corruption of post-World War II German politics and grieving after the sudden death of his wife. With a passionate, despairing voice, Wolfgang Koeppen (1906-1996), whom Gunter Grass once called the greatest living German writer, creates a portrait of idealism crushed by political and personal compromise.