The final work of fiction from Norman Mailer, a defining voice of the postwar era, is also one of his most ambitious, taking as its subject the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man in possession of extraordinary secrets, follows Adolf from birth through adolescence and offers revealing portraits of Hitler's parents and siblings. A crucial reflection on the shadows that eclipsed the twentieth century, Mailer's noveli idelivers myriad twists and surprises along with characteristically astonishing insights into the struggle between good and evil that exists in us all. p bPraise for iThe Castle in the Forestibbr i ibr This remarkable novel about the young Adolf Hitler, his family and their shifting circumstances, is Mailer's most perfect apprehension of the absolutely alien. . . . Mailer doesn't inhabit these historical figures so much as possess them.b--iThe New York Times Book Reviewib p Terrifically creepy . . . an icy and convincing portrait of the dictator as a youn