The Castle in the Forest, Norman Mailer
The Castle in the Forest, Norman Mailer
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The Castle in the Forest

Author: Norman Mailer

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 15 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 04/04/2017

Synopsis

The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Adolf from birth through adolescence and offers revealing portraits of Hitler’s parents and siblings. A crucial reflection on the shadows that eclipsed the twentieth century, Mailer’s novel delivers myriad twists and surprises along with characteristically astonishing insights into the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all.

About Norman Mailer

Born in Long Branch, NJ, in 1923, and raised in Brooklyn, Norman Mailer was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the 20th century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books. The Castle in the Forest, his last novel, was his eleventh New York Times bestseller. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, The Armies of the Night, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for The Executioner’s Song and is the only person to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. Mr. Mailer died in 2007 in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Gale on January 02, 2012

About ten years ago, I immersed myself in personal reading about Hilter and the Holocaust, including a biography by Alan Bullock, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, trying to understand how Hitler could have done what he did, how he became evil incarnate. I was no student of psychology, but I suspected fam......more

Goodreads review by Apoorva on February 08, 2008

i just read this book for our book club. I think others disliked it, but I thought it was fantastic and very unusual--which contributes to its fantastic-ness (is that a word)? The narrator is a minor devil who works for Satan, or maybe not, he doesn't really know, it could be another mid-level devil......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on February 08, 2018

A blend of fact and fiction, a history of a family that came to be known as Hitler, and a small boy called Adolf. A history related by the devil that was assigned to watch over him - a tale where the shit literally hits the man. For a guy who has won two Pulitzer prizes, Norm isn't afraid to get his......more

Goodreads review by Rena on April 29, 2025

Ever read a book and think the author wrote it just for you? That's how I feel about The Castle in the Forest. It's as if Norman Mailer thought, "I wonder what kind of weird, twisted novel I could write to make Rena Sherwood happy. I know! I'll write about Hitler's childhood. But told from the point......more

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