A beguiling fable about a summer holiday in the Swedish countryside that transforms into a provocative parable about oppression and the evil awaiting Europe as the Nazis came to power.Castle Gripsholm, the best and most beloved work by Kurt Tucholsky, is a short novel about an enchanted summer holiday. It begins with an assignment Tucholskys publisher wants him to write something light and funny, otherwise about whatever Tucholsky wants. A deal is struck and the story is off about Peter, a writer his girlfriend, known as the Princess and a summer vacation far from the hurlyburly of Berlin. Peter and the Princess have rented a small house attached to a historic castle in Sweden, and they have five weeks of long days and white nights at their disposal five weeks for swimming and walking and sex and talking and visits with Peters buddy Karlchen and with Billie, the Princesss best friend. It is perfect, until they meet a weeping girl fleeing the cruel headmistress of a home for children. The vacationers decide they must free the girl and send her back to her mother in Switzerland, which brings about an encounter with authority that casts a worrying shadow over their radiant summer idyll. Soon they must return to Germany. What kind of fairy tale are they living in?

Binding: Paperback;144 pages; Publisher: New York Review Books; Classification: FA; Weight: 292 g; Dimensions: 202 x 127 x 10

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