Eurotrash

A jaded journalist takes his spiky mother and her ill-gotten wealth on a road trip in this tragicomic and absurd novel ''Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination'' TIMES CRITICS'' BEST BOOK OF 2024 ''Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving'' FINANCIAL TIMES BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2024 Realising he and she are the very worst kind of people, a middle-aged man embarks on a dubious road trip through Switzerland with his mother, recently discharged from a psychiatric facility. En route, they attempt to give away the wealth she has amassed from investing in the arms industry, but a fortune of such immensity is hard to squander. Haunted in different ways by the figure of her Nazi-supporting father, on their tragicomic quest mother and son cannot avoid delving into the darkest parts of their past. Praise for Christian Kracht: ''Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation'' Joshua Cohen ''Astonishing and captivating'' Karl Ove Knausgaard TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES