INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE 2025 '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

Prizes

Long-listed for Man Booker International Award 2025 (UK)

Resonant and spiky * Daily Mail *
Brilliantly caustic * i Paper *
Not only moving and uplifting, but strangely funny ... Eurotrash is a knowing book * Guardian *
Very funny and very precisely written -- Toby Lichtig * Times Literary Supplement *
Quite simply a joy to read ... The narrator's mother is an unforgettable literary creation and Eurotrash is a brilliant and unsettling reckoning with history and memory, and with the ambiguities inherent in the art of writing fiction * Washington Post *
Steeped in knowing irony ... makes for enjoyable reading * Sunday Times *
Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving * Financial Times Best Translated Book of 2024 *
Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination * Times Critics' Pick Best Book of 2024 *
Reading Christian Kracht's Eurotrash is like holding up a mirror to another mirror and admiring the infinite reflections * New Statesman *
Deliciously disrespectful ... not only a hilariously unsettling road-trip of a novel, but also an exhilarating read * Financial Times *
Praise for Christian Kracht: Whether he's fictionalizing history in order to question the validity of history, or fictionalizing himself in order to question the validity of self, it is by now apparent to me and to his many readers that Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation. -- Joshua Cohen
Christian Kracht is a master of the well-formed sentence, the elegance of which conceals horror. His novels involve Germany, ghosts, war and madness, and every conceivable fright, but they are also full of melancholy comedy, and they all hide a secret that one never quite fathoms. -- Daniel Kehlmann
Imperium is astonishing and captivating, a tongue-in-cheek Conradian literary adventure for our time. -- Karl Ove Knausgaard
The Dead is a story of love and sadness in times when the weak were broken by the unforgiving ideologies of fascism and National Socialism . . . I read The Dead twice in a row, first for the story and then for the beauty of the prose. -- Sjón
To say a word about Christian Kracht's Imperium would be like engraving Goethe's Conversations of German Refugees into an orange seed. Or perhaps into a coconut? ... An adventure novel. No doubt. That there even is still such a thing -- Elfriede Jelinek
Wonderfully written and full of great setpieces... More than once, I felt I was in a world where some Wes Anderson characters would be just around the corner. Vicious and scathing... it's a darkly funny gem -- Rick O'Shea, broadcaster
Oozing irony - and brilliantly hilarious but unsettling * Sunday Post *

Christian Kracht is an award-winning Swiss novelist whose work has been translated into thirty languages. His novels include Faserland; 1979; Imperium; The Dead, which won the Swiss Book Prize and the Hermann Hesse Award; Eurotrash, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025; and the forthcoming Air. Daniel Bowles is an award-winning translator based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the translator of Christian Kracht's Imperium, The Dead, Eurotrash and Air.