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Eurotrash : A Times Best Book Of 2024
Eurotrash : A Times Best Book Of 2024
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Author(s): Kracht, Christian
ISBN No.: 9781805226598
Pages: 192
Year: 202510
Format: UK-B Format Paperback (Trade Paper)
Price: $ 18.34
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

The cult translated hit of 2024-25: a road trip novel like you've never read before from one of Europe's most acclaimed writers. 'Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination' TIMES CRITICS' BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving' FINANCIAL TIMES BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Astonishing and captivating' KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD 'There's a refreshing, bright moral clarity to Eurotrash' NELL ZINK 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. 'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' Joshua Cohen 'Resonant and spiky' Daily Mail'Brilliantly caustic' i Paper TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES.



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