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Lerman Rhoda - Solimeos - Paperback
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Description: Fleeing post - World War II Germany an aristocratic young man and his Nazi officer father are spirited away to the Brazilian jungle to help create a new occult - obsessed German Reich but love ambition and vengeance interfere. In the waning days of World War II fourteen - year - old Axel his family and their servants are cold and hungry in Pappendorf Castle. Baron Dietrich von Pappendorf Axel's father is away having spent much of the war traveling the world in search of an ancient pre - Babel language that his occult - obsessed Nazi masters believed would solidify Aryans as the master race. But when the baron returns to the family castle it's not in triumph. Axel and his family must flee Germany and embrace a life of luxurious exile in the Brazilian jungle. The von Pappendorfs take up residence in a gilded cage carved from the hallucinogenic wilds of Amazonia and originally built for Hitler. Protected from Nazi hunters the baron prepares for the Fourth Reich while Axel is guided by a shaman into the wisdom of the jungle. It's there the young man discovers ancient truths linking an Israelite king to a river known as Solimeos. Axel is also passionately in love with his father's mistress: beautiful Polish - Jewish Luba. He becomes torn between his love for his father his desire for Luba and the growing realization that he and his family can never atone for the past. Utterly original highly entertaining and sometimes shocking Rhoda Lerman's Solimeos a provocative parable about the sins of the father visited upon the son is a powerful and elegantly written story of family fanaticism and fate.
Title: Solimeos
Author(s): Lerman Rhoda
Publisher: Wicked Son
Barcode: 9781637587638
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/13/2023
Category: Historical Fiction
Description: Fleeing post - World War II Germany an aristocratic young man and his Nazi officer father are spirited away to the Brazilian jungle to help create a new occult - obsessed German Reich but love ambition and vengeance interfere. In the waning days of World War II fourteen - year - old Axel his family and their servants are cold and hungry in Pappendorf Castle. Baron Dietrich von Pappendorf Axel's father is away having spent much of the war traveling the world in search of an ancient pre - Babel language that his occult - obsessed Nazi masters believed would solidify Aryans as the master race. But when the baron returns to the family castle it's not in triumph. Axel and his family must flee Germany and embrace a life of luxurious exile in the Brazilian jungle. The von Pappendorfs take up residence in a gilded cage carved from the hallucinogenic wilds of Amazonia and originally built for Hitler. Protected from Nazi hunters the baron prepares for the Fourth Reich while Axel is guided by a shaman into the wisdom of the jungle. It's there the young man discovers ancient truths linking an Israelite king to a river known as Solimeos. Axel is also passionately in love with his father's mistress: beautiful Polish - Jewish Luba. He becomes torn between his love for his father his desire for Luba and the growing realization that he and his family can never atone for the past. Utterly original highly entertaining and sometimes shocking Rhoda Lerman's Solimeos a provocative parable about the sins of the father visited upon the son is a powerful and elegantly written story of family fanaticism and fate.
Title: Solimeos
Author(s): Lerman Rhoda
Publisher: Wicked Son
Barcode: 9781637587638
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/13/2023
Category: Historical Fiction
