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Air

The International Bestseller

Christian Kracht author Daniel Bowles translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Profile Books Ltd

Publishing:16th Jul '26

£12.99

This title is due to be published on 16th July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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The tour de force new novel from the author of International Booker-nominated cult smash Eurotrash

'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' Joshua Cohen Two men venture through strange landscapes towards unknowable destinations. Paul, a feted designer, wanders the echoing corridors of a server farm in Norway - before, in a sudden blackout, he seems to vanish. In another time and space, a wounded stranger wakes in a forest, watched over by a young girl who helps him flee to an icebound settlement where perhaps he will find safety. Inventive, enigmatic and chromatically resonant, Air is the seductively disorienting new novel from one of the most significant European writers working today. Heir to the ingenious fictions of Ursula K. Le Guin or Jorge Luis Borges, resistant to single interpretation, it unfolds as a haunting journey through a layered universe that may be a dream, the afterlife or reality's inverted twin. TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES PRAISE FOR EUROTRASH: '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

Praise for Eurotrash -- :
Astonishing and captivating -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
Quite simply a joy to read... a brilliant and unsettling reckoning with history and memory, and with the ambiguities inherent in the art of writing fiction * Sunday Times *
Not only moving and uplifting, but strangely funny * Guardian *
Deliciously disrespectful ... not only a hilariously unsettling road-trip of a novel, but also an exhilarating read * Financial Times *
Reading Christian Kracht's Eurotrash is like holding up a mirror to another mirror and admiring the infinite reflections * New Statesman *
Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving * Washington Post *
Very funny and very precisely written * TLS *

ISBN: 9781805228844

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

192 pages

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