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Eurotrash
Christian Kracht
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Description for Eurotrash
Trade Paperback.
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Profile Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Format
Paperback
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781805223047
SKU
V9781805223047
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Christian Kracht
Christian Kracht is a Swiss novelist whose work has been translated into thirty languages. His novels include Faserland, 1979, Imperium - which was the recipient of the Wilhelm Raabe literature prize, and one of Publisher's Weekly ten best books of 2015 - and, most recently, The Dead, which won the Swiss Book Prize and the Hermann Hesse Award.
Reviews for Eurotrash
Resonant and spiky
Daily Mail
Brilliantly caustic
i Paper
Not only moving and uplifting, but strangely funny ... Eurotrash is a knowing book
Guardian
Very funny and very precisely written
Toby Lichtig
Times Literary Supplement
Quite simply a joy to read ... The narrator's mother is an unforgettable literary creation and ... Read more
Daily Mail
Brilliantly caustic
i Paper
Not only moving and uplifting, but strangely funny ... Eurotrash is a knowing book
Guardian
Very funny and very precisely written
Toby Lichtig
Times Literary Supplement
Quite simply a joy to read ... The narrator's mother is an unforgettable literary creation and ... Read more