Castle to Castle (Translated by Ralph Manheim 1968)

✍ Scribed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

• Publisher: Penguin Books; Penguin Group
• Year: 1957
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 257 KB
• Series: Exile trilogy #1
• Edition: Penguin Books (1976)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0140043411

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 359 pages
Published: 1957
Edition: Penguin Books (1976)*
Exile trilogy #1
[The other books included in the Exile trilogy are Book #2 - North (1960), Book #3 - Rigadoon (1969)]
Originally published in French under the title D'un Chateau l'Autre
Translated from the French by: Ralph Manheim (1968)
Introduction by: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1975)
It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed, and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways. The group of 1,400 terrified officials, their wives, mistresses, flunkies, and Nazi “protectors”—including Céline, his wife, their cat, and an actor friend—attempt to postpone the postwar reckoning under the constant threat of air raids and starvation.
With an undercurrent of sensual excitement, Céline paints an almost unbearably vivid picture of society and the human condition.

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