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Christian Kracht - Eurotrash, Inbunden

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Eurotrash

A Novel

Av Christian Kracht

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From “the great German-language writer of his generation” (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Christian Kracht’s career narrated by an eponymous “Christian” (the first was his bestselling debut, Faserland). Eurotrash begins in Zurich, where Christian has returned to care for his eighty-year-old mother after her discharge from a psychiatric institution. Confronting the dark shadows of his family’s past—particularly his grandfather’s strong ties with the Nazi regime—and struggling to navigate the emotionally wrenching terrain of his relationship with his mother, he sets off on a road trip with her. As they traverse Switzerland together in a hired cab, mother and son attempt to give away her vast fortune, stuffed in a large plastic bag, to random strangers.By turns disturbing, disorienting, hilarious, and poignant, and brilliantly rendered in English by prize-winning translator Daniel Bowles, Eurotrash tells an intensely personal and unsparingly critical story of contemporary culture; a story that shows us a writer at the pinnacle of his powers of insight and observation.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-10-01
  • Mått: 146 x 218 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 350 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Liveright
  • Antal sidor: 192
  • Förlag: W W Norton & Co Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781324094562
  • Originaltitel: Eurotrash
  • Översättare: Daniel Bowles
  • Utmärkelser: Long-listed for International Booker Prize 2025
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Christian Kracht’s books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Zurich with his wife and daughter. Daniel Bowles’s translation of Eurotrash was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2025. He teaches at Boston College.

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"Eurotrash is quite simply a joy to read. Daniel Bowles has produced a glitteringly metaphorical translation, rich with delights: the mother’s skin has “the texture of dry silk”; the taillights of cars during a downpour are “mirrored in the puddles, orange-red and episodic, like little wet flames.” The narrator’s mother is an unforgettable literary creation, and scenes in which he serves as a nurse for her potentially embarrassing health needs are quite genuinely moving. Psychogarbage or not, Eurotrash is a brilliant and unsettling reckoning with history and memory, and with the ambiguities inherent in the art of writing fiction in the first place."

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