| Too Many Men | |
| Author: | Lily Brett |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | novel |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan, Australia |
| Release Date: | 1999 |
| Media Type: | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages: | 714 |
| Isbn: | 0330361392 |
| Preceded By: | Just Like That |
| Followed By: | You Gotta Have Balls |
Too Many Men (1999) is a novel by Australian author Lily Brett. It won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2000 for the Best Book from the South-East Asia and South Pacific Region. The novel was adapted into a feature film by the German director Julia von Heinz. Titled as Treasure, the film will be presented at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in the Berlinale Special Gala section in February 2024.[1] The movie had its US premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 8, 2024. William Morrow published a movie edition of the book, retitled, "Treasure" in May 2024.
Ruth Rothwax, a successful New York business-woman, takes her 80-year-old father Edek, a Holocaust survivor living in Melbourne, back to Poland, to revisit the land of his birth. They are also accompanied, unknown to Edek, by the ghost of the dead Nazi Rudolf Höss. The novel explores the two main characters' different responses to what they find.