Eurotrash

Den schweiziske stjerneforfatter Chri­stian Kracht har skrevet en sofistikeret roman, hvori vi følger mor og søn på road trip gennem Schweiz og på sporet af familiens nazistiske og tabubelagte fortid. I Eurotrash tager romanens fortæller, forfat­teren Christian Kracht, sin mor med på road trip gennem Schweiz. Han ønsker at forstå de større sammenhænge i sin families forhold og at konfrontere dens nazistiske fortid. Med en plastikpose fuld af en formue i kontanter og kufferten pakket med morens kashmirsweatre, psykofarmaka og vodkaflasker, tager mor og søn af sted i taxa fra Zürich. Eurotrash er en tragikomisk, elegant og højst spektakulær fortælling om en familie og dens dæmoner, fortielser og benægtelser gennem historien. Romanen spidder spørgsmål om nedarvet skyld og skam og formår samtidig at tegne et rørende og sammensat portræt af en mor.

INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE 2025 SOON TO BE A MAJOR PLAY STARRING BEN WHISHAW AND KATHRYN HUNTER '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 'Astonishing and captivating' KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD 'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' JOSHUA COHEN 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. 'There's a refreshing, bright moral clarity to Eurotrash' NELL ZINK 'Brilliantly caustic' i PAPER TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES

INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE 2025 SOON TO BE A MAJOR PLAY STARRING BEN WHISHAW AND KATHRYN HUNTER '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 'Astonishing and captivating' KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD 'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' JOSHUA COHEN 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. 'There's a refreshing, bright moral clarity to Eurotrash' NELL ZINK 'Brilliantly caustic' i PAPER TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES

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.

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.

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 A probing masterpiece-in-miniature of self-reflection and cultural reckoning. The Times [UK] • 12 Best Books of 2024 Financial Times • Best Books of 2024 [Fiction in Translation] A Vanity Fair "Can't Miss Novel to Read" Literary Hub • Best Book Covers of October 2024

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 A probing masterpiece-in-miniature of self-reflection and cultural reckoning. The Times [UK] • 12 Best Books of 2024 Financial Times • Best Books of 2024 [Fiction in Translation] A Vanity Fair "Can't Miss Novel to Read" Literary Hub • Best Book Covers of October 2024

Den schweiziske stjerneforfatter Chri­stian Kracht har skrevet en sofistikeret roman, hvori vi følger mor og søn på road trip gennem Schweiz og på sporet af familiens nazistiske og tabubelagte fortid. I Eurotrash tager romanens fortæller, forfat­teren Christian Kracht, sin mor med på road trip gennem Schweiz. Han ønsker at forstå de større sammenhænge i sin families forhold og at konfrontere dens nazistiske fortid. Med en plastikpose fuld af en formue i kontanter og kufferten pakket med morens kashmirsweatre, psykofarmaka og vodkaflasker, tager mor og søn af sted i taxa fra Zürich. Eurotrash er en tragikomisk, elegant og højst spektakulær fortælling om en familie og dens dæmoner, fortielser og benægtelser gennem historien. Romanen spidder spørgsmål om nedarvet skyld og skam og formår samtidig at tegne et rørende og sammensat portræt af en mor. ”En modig roman … Enestående i Krachts forfatterskab og sågar i hele den tysksprogede litteratur.” – Der Spiegel ”En fænomenal bog … Moren er den mest excentriske, skarpe, vidunderlige karakter.” – Frankfurter allgemeine zeitung ”Christian Kracht har skrevet en fabelagtig dekonstruktionsroman, hvor lidelse og leg, autenticitet og spilfægteri, mystik og oplysning på vidunderlig vis griber ind i hinanden. Eurotrash er en begivenhed.” – Die Zeit

Der Roman »Eurotrash« erzählt von einer Reise mit der seelisch wie gesundheitlich (fragilen) zerstörten Mutter. Im Taxi und mit der Bergbahn geht es durch die einstige Schweizer Heimat. Die Fahrt wird zu einer grausam-zärtlichen Erkundung der Kindheit eines Christian, der der Autor Kracht ist, aber als solcher immer schon ein anderer. Der schonungslose Blick auf die Geschichte der Familie und ihrer Verstrickung in die Schatten des Zweiten Weltkriegs gibt dem Buch seine unvergleichliche Energie, seinen Humor und seine Intensität, wie sie nur Kunst besitzt..

»I'll see you in twenty-five years.« Laura Palmer. >Faserland

»I'll see you in twenty-five years.« Laura Palmer. >Faserland