by Wolfgang Koeppen · Sueddt. Zeitung GmbH · tapa dura · ISBN 9783937793252
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«Das Treibhaus» is the political novel by German writer Wolfgang Koeppen, published by Sueddt. Zeitung GmbH in hardcover (171 pages, in German).
Set in Bonn in the 1950s, the novel follows Social Democratic MP Keetenheuve, who opposes the rearmament and militarization of West Germany while witnessing the old elites returning to power. An exile who fought against Nazism, he clashes with opportunism, party discipline and the chancellor's authoritarianism.
Das Treibhaus was originally published in 1953 and is the second installment of the 'Trilogy of Failure'; this edition is number 27 of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Bibliothek.
For those interested in political criticism and post-war German literature, and for collectors of the Süddeutsche Zeitung Bibliothek.
Wolfgang Arthur Reinhold Koeppen was a German novelist and one of the best known German authors of the postwar period.
