The Tristan chord
Skwerer, Glenn2019
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Salzburg, 1945: Eugen Reczek, a middle-aged Austrian desk clerk, is interned by the American occupiers. The reason: he is der Hitlerjugendfreund - 'The Friend of the Fuhrer's Youth'. Linz, 1905: An upholstery apprentice by day and fledgling violist by night, Eugen meets 15-year-old Adolf Hitler at the local opera, and for the next four years they see each other almost daily. Eugene is captivated but also troubled by Hitler: his almost complete isolation, his morbid preoccupation with his dead father, and his obsession with a young woman to whom he has never said a word. They move together to Vienna - Adolf to study art; Eugen to study music - but as Adolf's money runs low, he becomes increasingly drawn to the racist gutter press of Vienna, and so to hatred: of women, of sex, of all things sensual.
Main title:
The Tristan chord / Glenn Skwerer.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Unbound, 2019.London : Unbound, 2019.
Collation:
xiii, 369 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2018.
Awards:
Hackney Literary Prize 2013
ISBN:
9781783528462 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
2196341