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Eurotrash
Kracht, Christian, 1966-2024
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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.
Main title:
Eurotrash / Christian Kracht ; translated by Daniel Bowles.
Author:
Kracht, Christian, 1966-, authorBowles, Daniel James, 1981-, translator
Imprint:
London : Serpent's Tail, 2024.
Collation:
192 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781805223047 (pbk)
Dewey class:
833.92F
LC class:
PT2671.R225
Local class:
F
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
4015259