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Hothouse: A Novel by Wolfgang Koeppen (Hardcover, 2002)

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Author:Koeppen, Wolfgang. His novels were like a slap in the face to a Federal Republic that preferred to make money and forget about the recent past of genocide and oppression. Hothouse: A Novel. Book Binding:Hardback.

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The Hothouse refers to the city of Bonn, with its warm damp climate, but it also refers to the political environment of the temporary capital of divided Germany, where politics in the 1950s were about compromises and half-measures. The central character, Keetenheuve, is an idealistic politician-intellectual who has returned from voluntary exile during the Nazi period. Now his idealism becomes a trap for him, as he attempts to break with the past and persuade his colleagues to embrace a radical rejection of militarism. The novel traces the final two days in the life of this depressed, isolated man.