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02253aam a22002895 4500 001 91CCC976794811EE8DD2691B42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231102012453 008 230630s2023 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1637587635 020 $a 9781637587638 040 $d SILO 050 $a PS 082 $a 813 100 1 $a Lerman, Rhoda, $e author. 245 10 $a Solimeos / $c Rhoda Lerman. 264 1 $a New York : $b Wicked Son, an imprint of Post Hill Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 309 pages 520 $a In the waning days of World War II, 14-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 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 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. 650 0 $a Young men $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Literary. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Jewish. $2 bisacsh 651 0 $a Brazil $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20231102013332.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=91CCC976794811EE8DD2691B42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search