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- Engelsk
- 192 sider
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Beskrivelse
'Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination' TIMES CRITICS' BEST BOOK OF 2024'Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving' FINANCIAL TIMES BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2024'Resonant and spiky' DAILY MAIL'Brilliantly caustic' i PAPERRealising he and she are the very 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. Traversing the country in a hired cab, they attempt to give away the wealth she has amassed from investing in the arms industry, but a fortune of such immensity is surprisingly 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 a bitterly funny, vertiginous mirror-cabinet of familial and historical reckoning. The pair's tragicomic quest is punctuated by the tenderness and spite meted out between two people who cannot escape one another. Intensely personal and unsparingly critical, Eurotrash is a disorientingly brilliant novel by a writer at the pinnacle of his powers.Praise for Christian Kracht:'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' Joshua Cohen'Astonishing and captivating' Karl Ove KnausgaardTRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES
Detaljer
- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal192
- Udgivelsesdato07-11-2024
- ISBN139781805223047
- Forlag Serpent's Tail
- FormatPaperback
- UdgaveMain
Størrelse og vægt
10 cm
Anmeldelser
Kim L 27/03/2025
Det kunne have været en sjov roadnovel med en neurotisk, selvplagende forfatter og hans grandiose, fordrukne mor, men det bliver ikke til andet end løs snak om dit og dat, og så slutter den. Uengageret og halvhjertet. Virker som noget forfatteren har skrevet i løbet af nogle uger hvor han alligevel ikke havde andet at lave.
Henning D 29/08/2022
svært ved at holde tankerne samlet. Underlige tryk på fremmedord
nicolaj h 16/08/2022
ved da ikke om det bare var mig den gik hen over hovedet på eller det bare er en besynderlig bog
Niels T 23/02/2022
Elitær, endeløs ordflom og ligegyldig namedropping. Ikke min kop te.
Ove P 5 21/02/2022
Uovertruffen god
Anonym 21/02/2022
God bog. Dog er oplæseren rigtig dårlig til fremmedsprog. Det er ærgerligt.
peerdejgaard 20/02/2022
Virkelig skøn bog .
Poul H 24 17/02/2022
Meget uenig med forrige anmelder.
Lise O 16/02/2022
Tankevækkende. Super bog!