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Eurotrash

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025

by Christian Kracht
Daniel Bowles
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'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
TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES

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    November 7, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9781805223054

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      • ISBN: 9781805223054
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    • English

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from August 5, 2024
      It’s autofiction on the autobahn in this incendiary outing from Kracht (Imperium). A middle-aged writer named Christian Kracht visits his mother in Zurich, where she’s been living alone and subsisting on vodka, phenobarbital, and cheese slices since divorcing her rich husband. Disgusted by the “city of poseurs and braggarts and debasements,” by his estimation, he proposes a road trip, determined to coax her out of her claustrophobic apartment and her “spider web of resentment, fury, and loneliness.” She accepts, on the condition that he help her “squander” a substantial amount of cash from her bank account, and he agrees (“the only way to deal with money sensibly was to give it away,” Christian reflects). Thanks to their liberally paid taxi driver, they visit an eerie commune, head to the mountains in search of wild edelweiss, and visit Borges’s grave in Geneva, the only city Christian detests more than Zurich. All the while, the two warily circle around their simmering resentments and Christian’s disgust with his “dead and soulless” family’s Nazi connections. A playful tale of reconciliation that never becomes saccharine, this is one readers won’t want to miss. Agent: Andrew Wylie, Wylie Agency.

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