num_pages: 218
description: Dalton Trumbo’s posthumous work, this novel tells the story of an old unrepentant Nazi official named Grieben. Former chief of the Auschwitz concentration camp, the protagonist is motivated by a boundless desire for power &amp; by what seems to be an inability to receive love. In autobiographical form, Grieben ensnares us in the sadism of his youth, the cruelty of his relationship with a woman who was half-Jewish &amp; the indescribable horror of the Holocaust.
language: English
title: Night of the Aurochs
titlecomplete: Night of the Aurochs
genres: Germany, Historical Fiction, Horror, Classics, War, Fiction
ratings_count: 102
publisher: Viking Books (NY)