Eurotrash (novel)
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| Author | Christian Kracht |
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| Language | German |
| Genre | autobiographical novel |
| Publisher | Kiepenheuer & Witsch |
Publication date | 4 March 2021 |
| Publication place | Germany |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 978-3-462-05083-7 |
Eurotrash is a 2021 autobiographical novel by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht. It takes place during a road trip in Switzerland with a man and his 80 year old mother. It is a sequel to Kracht's 1995 debut novel Faserland, featuring the same protagonist 25 years later.[1]
The book was shortlisted for the German Book Prize and Swiss Book Prize.[2][3]
Upon its 2024 publication in the United Kingdom with Serpent's Tail, the Washington Post wrote "Quite simply a joy to read ... The narrator's mother is an unforgettable literary creation and Eurotrash is a brilliant and unsettling reckoning with history and memory, and with the ambiguities inherent in the art of writing fiction", while The Times, as well as the Financial Times chose the novel as one of the best books of 2024.
Marcel Theroux wrote in The Guardian "Short but hefty, Eurotrash is a book about ageing that’s steeped in a guilty knowingness about privilege, wealth and the 20th century. There’s something bracing about the narrator’s pained awareness that if there’s such a thing as the wrong side of history, he and his family are firmly on it."<ref>TheGuardian.com < https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/14/eurotrash-by-christian-kracht-review-blackly-comic-autofiction<. Retrieved 22 February 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)/ref>
References
[edit]- ^ Williamson, Jason (2022). "Eurotrash by Christian Kracht (review)". World Literature Today. 96 (3): 73. doi:10.1353/wlt.2022.0142.
- ^ "Eurotrash". New Books in German. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Christian Kracht zieht «Eurotrash» vom Schweizer Buchpreis zurück" (in German). Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen. 22 September 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2024.