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.
