The Alphabet House is a fictitious novel written by Jussi Alder-Olsen. The author was the son of a psychiatrist and grew up in the surroundings of “insane asylums.” Getting to know a few of the patients, one of these chronically mentally ill patients lived using two sentences during the thirties where he came with a third sentence after meeting again by the seventies. The objects of World War II and mentally ill individuals intrigued the author to combine the two when he was engages in a conversation with his mother’s friend who worked as a nurse in Bad Kreuznach—a German town in the district of Rhineland-Palatinate. In the summer of 1987, Jussi went to Italy where he was encouraged to write the novel. In the beginning of Part I, America has
