The Castle in the ForestBy: Norman Mailer 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 Hitlers parents and siblings. A crucial reflection on the shadows that eclipsed the twentieth century, Mailers novel