The Castle in the Forest Audiobook (Free)

A SIGNIFICANT NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF AMERICA’S GREATEST Guys OF LETTERS

No career in contemporary American letters is at once so outstanding, mixed, and controversial as that of Norman Mailer. In a span of more than six decades, Mailer has searched into subjects which range from World Battle II to Ancient Egypt, through the march within the Pentagon to Marilyn Monroe, from Henry Miller and Muhammad Ali to Jesus Christ. Now, in his first major work of fiction in greater than a decade, The Castle in the Forest presents what about The Castle in the Forest may be Mailer’s consummate literary effort: he provides set out to explore the evil of Adolf Hitler.

The narrator, a mysterious SS man in ownership of some remarkable secrets, takes the youthful Adolf from delivery through his adolescence. On the way, revealing portraits are offered of Hitler’s father and mother, and his sisters and brothers.

A tapestry of memorable characters, The Castle in the Forest delivers its myriad twists and surprises with amazing insight in to the nature of the struggle between great and evil that is present in us all. At its core is certainly a hypothesis that is employed with spectacular originality. Now, for the eve of his eighty-fourth birthday, Norman Mailer may well be saying a lot more than he ever provides before.