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Eurotrash (Paperback)
Christian Kracht
Book In The Faserland Series

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.

 

TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES

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Awards

Nominated:
International Booker Prize

Media Reviews

'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

'Brilliantly caustic' i PAPER

Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' Joshua Cohen

'Astonishing and captivating' KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD
'There's a refreshing, bright moral clarity to Eurotrash' NELL ZINK

What We Think

We think that if you are looking for a bit of literary modern fiction that is a bit different, the Eurotrash is a solid choice. The story is of a man and his elderly mother on a roadtrip across the Swiss countryside. It's both funny and deals with rough subjects - the family is rich from arms dealing by his Nazi supporting dad. Like we said, it's a bit different.

Originally written in German, Eurotrash was long listed for an International Booker Prize.

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A Bit More Info

The Author

Author: Christian Kracht
Nationality: Swiss

The Book

Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Published: 2025-10-30
First Published: 2021
ISBN: 9781805226598

The Place

Continent: Europe
Country: Switzerland

The Sub-Genres

  • Autobiographical Fiction
  • Translated Fiction

The Setting

  • Countryside

The Themes

  • Aging
  • Capitalism
  • Generational Trauma
  • Wealth

The Writing Style

  • Dark humour
  • Autobiographical