Eurotrash

Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, our unnamed middle-aged narrator embarks on a highly dubious road trip through Switzerland with his terminally ill and terminally drunken mother. They try unsuccessfully to give away or squander the fortune she has amassed from investing in armament industry shares. Along the journey they bicker endlessly over the past, throw handfuls of francs into a ravine and exasperate the living daylights out of their long-suffering taxi driver. The crimes of the twentieth century are never far behind, but neither is the need for more vodka. Eurotrash is a bitterly comic, vertiginous mirror-cabinet of familial and historical reckoning. Kracht''s novel is a narrative tour-de-force of the tenderness and spite meted out between two people who cannot escape one another.

Autorentext

Christian Kracht

Klappentext

A jaded journalist takes his spiky mother and her ill-gotten wealth on a road trip in this tragicomic and absurd novel

'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 PAPER

**Realising 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 Knausgaard

Zusammenfassung
A rambunctious, tragicomic absurd road trip novel about a wealthy Swiss-German mother and son