Eurotrash

Description

From “the great German-language writer of his generation” (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Christian Kracht’s career narrated by an eponymous “Christian” (the first was his bestselling debut, Faserland). Eurotrash begins in Zurich, where Christian has returned to care for his eighty-year-old mother after her discharge from a psychiatric institution. Confronting the dark shadows of his family’s past–particularly his grandfather’s strong ties with the Nazi regime–and struggling to navigate the emotionally wrenching terrain of his relationship with his mother, he sets off on a road trip with her. As they traverse Switzerland together in a hired cab, mother and son attempt to give away her vast fortune, stuffed in a large plastic bag, to random strangers.

By turns disturbing, disorienting, hilarious, and poignant, and brilliantly rendered in English by prize-winning translator Daniel Bowles, Eurotrash tells an intensely personal and unsparingly critical story of contemporary culture; a story that shows us a writer at the pinnacle of his powers of insight and observation.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Contributors: Christian Kracht,Daniel Bowles (Translator)
Published: 10/22/2024
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9781324094562
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 0.75″ H x 8.58″ L x 5.76″ W

Award: 2025 Man Booker International Prize Nominee – Longlist

About the Author
Kracht, Christian: – Christian Kracht‘s books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Zurich with his wife and daughter.Bowles, Daniel: – Daniel Bowles‘s translation of Eurotrash was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2025. He teaches at Boston College.