Mars in AriesAlexander Lernet-HoleniaLabel: Penguin ClassicsDescription: A haunting novel of love fate and war from the Austrian master and acclaimed author of Baron Bagge and Count Luna ('A book so astonishing I immediately re-read it' – Patti Smith)‘He’d had the feeling that he was expected there on that day. But by whom?’Vienna 1939. Lieutenant Wallmoden is preparing to take part in a mysterious ‘military exercise’ when he meets the austerely beautiful Baroness Pistohlkors and her elusive circle of acquaintances. He promises to see her again – but then discovers his company has been mobilised for war. Marching across Europe stumbling across the border between the living and the dead one constant remains: he must keep his tryst with the Baroness in this world or the next.Banned by the Nazis and almost lost Mars in Aries is an erotically charged ghost story a shocking account of the invasion of Poland and a mesmeric exploration of time and fate.Translated by Robert Dassanowsky and John Barrett
