'Odd and evocative a frolicking rumination' TIMES CRITICS' BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR'Hilarious
unsettling and unexpectedly moving' FINANCIAL TIMES BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF THE
YEAR'Astonishing and captivating' KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD'There's a refreshing bright moral
clarity to Eurotrash' NELL ZINK Realising he and she are the 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. Driving across the country they attempt
to give away her arms-industry wealth but a fortune of such immensity is 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 an
unsparingly funny vertiginous mirror-cabinet of familial and historical reckoning a
tragicomic quest punctuated by the tenderness and spite meted out between two people who cannot
escape one another. 'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation'
Joshua Cohen'Resonant and spiky' Daily Mail'Brilliantly caustic' i paperTRANSLATED BY DANIEL
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