The International Booker Award winner's breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis particle
physics and graffiti vandalism'Propulsive and revelatory' The New York Times'A work of genius'
5-star review TelegraphGentle giant Florian Herscht is an orphan adopted by a neo-Nazi who
has apprenticed him as a graffiti cleaner. The Boss a Bach fanatic is enraged that someone is
spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to the famed composer in their east German town. He
is determined to punish the culprit and Florian has no choice but to join his gang as they
devise a plan to catch him. But Florian has bigger things to worry about: having attended Herr
Köhler's adult education classes in physics he can see that the world might end at any moment.
Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding Krasznahorkai's
novel is a tour de force a moving character study a blistering satire and devastating
encapsulation of our helplessness at the moral and environmental dilemmas we face today.
