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Eurotrash
Christian Kracht
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Beschreibung
A jaded journalist takes his spiky mother and her ill-gotten wealth on a road trip in this tragicomic and absurd novel
'Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination' TIMES CRITICS' BEST BOOK OF 2024
'Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving' FINANCIAL TIMES BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2024
'Resonant and spiky' DAILY MAIL
'Brilliantly caustic' i PAPER
Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his eighty-year-old mother, recently discharged from a mental institution. Traversing the country in a hired cab, they attempt to give away the wealth she has amassed from investing in the arms industry, but a fortune of such immensity is surprisingly hard to squander. Haunted in different ways by the figure of her father, an ardent supporter of Nazism, mother and son can no longer avoid delving into the darkest truths about their past.
Eurotrash is a bitterly funny, vertiginous mirror-cabinet of familial and historical reckoning. The pair's tragicomic quest is punctuated by the tenderness and spite meted out between two people who cannot escape one another. Intensely personal and unsparingly critical, Eurotrash is a disorientingly brilliant novel by a writer at the pinnacle of his powers.
Praise for Christian Kracht:
'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' Joshua Cohen
'Astonishing and captivating' Karl Ove Knausgaard
Rezensionen
<i>I</i> <i>mperium</i> is astonishing and captivating, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time.
Quite simply a joy to read ... The narrator'
Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving
Deliciously disrespectful ... not only a hilariously unsettling road-trip of a novel, but also an exhilarating read
<p>Praise for Christian Kracht:<br><br>Whether he'
<i>The Dead</i> is a story of love and sadness in times when the weak were broken by the unforgiving ideologies of fascism and National Socialism . . . I read <i>The Dead</i> twice in a row, first for the story and then for the beauty of the prose.
Resonant and spiky
Very funny and very precisely written
Christian Kracht is a master of the well-formed sentence, the elegance of which conceals horror. His novels involve Germany, ghosts, war and madness, and every conceivable fright, but they are also full of melancholy comedy, and they all hide a secret that one never quite fathoms.
To say a word about Christian Kracht's <i>Imperium</i> would be like engraving Goethe'
Reading Christian Kracht'
Brilliantly caustic
Steeped in knowing irony ... makes for enjoyable reading
Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination
Not only moving and uplifting, but strangely funny ... <i>Eurotrash </i>is a knowing book
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