INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE 2025 '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 'Christian
Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' JOSHUA COHEN 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. 'There's a refreshing bright
moral clarity to Eurotrash ' NELL ZINK 'Brilliantly caustic' i PAPER TRANSLATED BY DANIEL
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