- Fiction, Fiction, alternative history, Nazis, War crime trials
*The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.* is a 1981 literary and philosophical novella by George Steiner. The story is about Jewish Nazi hunters who find a fictional Adolf Hitler (A.H.) alive in the Amazon jungle thirty years after the end of World War II.
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- intimateepic
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- Author
- George Steiner
- First published
- 1981
- Pages
- 170
- Publisher
- Pocket, University of Chicago Press, Simon and Schuster
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571117413
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