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Wolfgang Koeppen: Das Treibhaus (The Hothouse)
The hothouse of the title is Bonn in the 1950s and the main inhabitant is a German social democrat member of parliament, called Keetenheuve.
At the beginning of the book he has just buried his wife, Elke. He found Elke at the end of the war, an orphan girl of sixteen.
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Her father had been a senior Nazi official and he and his wife killed themselves to avoid punishment. Keetenheuve had left Germany in the 1930s, disgusted with the rise of the Nazis, and ended up in England via Canada. He returned to Germany as a major in the British army.
This fact and his father-in-law have been two of the impediments to his career.
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However, the major impediment at the start of this book is that Germany wants to re-arm, while Keetenheuve is a committed pacifist. In short, he does not play the game. In the Bonn hothouse, it is business as usual, with the politicians – including forme