{"title":"Christian Kracht","description":"Christian Kracht is a Swiss novelist, whose books have been translated into 27 languages. His previous novels include Faserland, 1979, and I Will Be Here in Sunshine and in Shadow. Imperium was the recipient of the 2012 Wilhelm Raabe literature prize.","products":[{"product_id":"eurotrash-paperback","title":"Eurotrash - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \"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, \u003cem\u003eFaserland\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eEurotrash\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By turns disturbing, disorienting, hilarious, and poignant, and brilliantly rendered in English by prize-winning translator Daniel Bowles, \u003cem\u003eEurotrash\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102512746719,"sku":"9781324097082","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PNKELrJuMd9781324097082.webp?v=1781083398"},{"product_id":"eurotrash-hardcover","title":"Eurotrash - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"the great German-language writer of his generation\" (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Kracht's career narrated by an eponymous \"Christian\" (the first was his best-selling 1995 debut, \u003cem\u003eFaserland\u003c\/em\u003e). Eurotrash begins in Zurich, where Christian has arrived to care for his eighty-year-old mother after her discharge from a mental institution. Reckoning with his family's dark history--his long-dead grandfather was intimately associated with and unapologetically supportive of the Nazis--and struggling to navigate the emotionally wrenching terrain of his relationship with his mother, Christian sets off on a road-trip with her. As they traverse Switzerland in a hired cab, mother and son attempt to give away her vast fortune, which they're carrying in a large plastic bag, to random strangers. By turns disturbing, disorienting, hilarious, and poignant, \u003cem\u003eEurotrash\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103671619807,"sku":"9781324094562","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/JUDqF003Nq9781324094562.webp?v=1781097412"},{"product_id":"imperium-paperback","title":"Imperium - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Ten Best Books of 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Best Fiction Book of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island of Kabakon. His goal: to establish a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was forty-three years old. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his first novel to be translated into English, internationally bestselling author Christian Kracht uses the outlandish details of Engelhardt's life to craft a fable about the allure of extremism and its fundamental foolishness. \"A Melvillean masterpiece of the South Seas\" (Jonathan Sturgeon, \u003ci\u003eFlavorwire\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eImperium\u003c\/i\u003e is funny, bizarre, shocking, and poignant---sometimes all on the same page.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104835473631,"sku":"9781250097477","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/tpVYCpCwat9781250097477.webp?v=1781111415"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/christian-kracht.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}