Eurotrash [electronic resource] : A Times Best Book of 2024
Christian Kracht2024
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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-...
Main title:
Eurotrash [electronic resource] : A Times Best Book of 2024 / Christian Kracht
Author:
Christian Kracht, Author
Imprint:
London United Kingdom : Serpent's Tail, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (271.0 Kbytes)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781805223054
Language:
English
BRN:
527090
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