Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome, in the words of translator Michael Hofmann, "is a comprehensive and brilliant provocation of an entire nation". First published in 1954 to great controversy, it is only now being recognized as a classic. A tragic portrait of Germany after World War II, Death in Rome completes the trilogy that earned Koeppen praise from Gunter Grass in his lifetime as "the greatest living German writer". Mirroring the social and political upheaval following the fall of Nazism, Koeppen here offers the story of four members of a Germany family -- a former SS officer, a young man preparing for the priesthood, a composer, and a government administrator -- reunited by chance in the decaying beauty of postwar Rome. Koeppen re-creates the soul of a nation at a significant juncture of history in this devastating work of literary genius.
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Hardback Editions
January 1961 : Hardback
| Title: DEATH IN ROME. Author(s): Wolfgang Koeppen Publisher: New York, Vanguard [ Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1956 : Hardback
| Title: Death in Rome Author(s): Wolfgang Koeppen Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London Availability: Amazon More details... |
Paperback Editions
2005 : Paperback
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May 2004 : Paperback
| Title: Death in Rome Author(s): Wolfgang Koeppen ISBN: 1-86207-589-1 / 9781862075894 (UK edition) Publisher: Granta Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
June 2001 : Paperback
| Title: Death in Rome Author(s): Wolfgang Koeppen ISBN: 0-393-32194-0 / 978-0-393-32194-4 (USA edition) Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 1994 : Paperback
| Title: Death In Rome Author(s): Wolfgang Koeppen ISBN: 0-14-016923-7 / 978-0-14-016923-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin UK Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1994 : Paperback
| Title: Death in Rome (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) Author(s): Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann ISBN: 0-14-018790-1 / 978-0-14-018790-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
November 1992 : Paperback
| Title: Death in Rome Author(s): Wolfgang Koeppen, michael hofmann ISBN: 0-241-13238-X / 978-0-241-13238-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
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1961 : Unknown
| Title: Death in Rome,: A novel Author(s): Wolfgang Koeppen Publisher: Vanguard Press Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
1956 : Unknown
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