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Eurotrash
Christian Kracht
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Description
Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, our unnamed middle-aged narrator embarks on a highly dubious road trip through Switzerland with his terminally ill and terminally drunken mother. They try unsuccessfully to give away or squander the fortune she has amassed from investing in armament industry shares. Along the journey they bicker endlessly over the past, throw handfuls of francs into a ravine and exasperate the living daylights out of their long-suffering taxi driver. The crimes of the twentieth century are never far behind, but neither is the need for more vodka.
Eurotrash is a bitterly comic, vertiginous mirror-cabinet of familial and historical reckoning. Kracht's novel is a narrative tour-de-force of the tenderness and spite meted out between two people who cannot escape one another.
Reviews
Christian Kracht is a master of the well-formed sentence, the elegance of which conceals horror. His novels involve Germany, ghosts, war and madness, and every conceivable fright, but they are also full of melancholy comedy, and they all hide a secret that one never quite fathoms.
<p>Praise for Christian Kracht:<br><br>Whether he'
<i>The Dead</i> is a story of love and sadness in times when the weak were broken by the unforgiving ideologies of fascism and National Socialism . . . I read <i>The Dead</i> twice in a row, first for the story and then for the beauty of the prose.
<i>I</i> <i>mperium</i> is astonishing and captivating, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time.
To say a word about Christian Kracht's <i>Imperium</i> would be like engraving Goethe'
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