Christian Kracht

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER NOMINATED AUTHOR OF EUROTRASH''A master of the well-formed sentence'' DANIEL KEHLMANN''Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation'' JOSHUA COHEN''Read him for the experience of reading him. Read him and wonder'' NELL ZINKTwo 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.''Air is as enigmatic as its title'' TLS''A splendidly wrong-footing blend of sci-fi and historical fiction ... delivering a thunderbolt twist'' DAILY MAILTranslated from German by Daniel Bowles

''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''There''s a refreshing, bright moral clarity to Eurotrash'' NELL ZINK 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. ''Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation'' Joshua Cohen''Resonant and spiky'' Daily Mail''Brilliantly caustic'' i paperTRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES