An Evening with Christian Kracht - Glasgow Byres Road

We're delighted to welcome Christian Kracht, one of the foremost writers of today in the German language, to discuss his latest novel Eurotrash.
Hailed by the likes of Karl Ove Knausgaard and Joshua Cohen, Christian Kracht's spiky, rambunctious masterpiece finds a middle-aged man and his terminally ill mother on a vodka-fuelled road trip in Switzerland, while the ghosts of Europe's twentieth century loom large in the background.Eurotrash is a bitterly funny, vertiginous mirror-cabinet of familial and historical reckoning. The pair's tragicomic quest is punctuated by the tenderness and spite meted out between two people who cannot escape one another. Intensely personal and unsparingly critical, ​Eurotrash is a disorientingly brilliant novel by a writer at the pinnacle of his powers.
Christian Kracht is a Swiss novelist whose work has been translated into thirty languages. His novels include Faserland, 1979, Imperium – which was the recipient of the Wilhelm Raabe literature prize, and one of Publisher's Weekly ten best books of 2015 – and, most recently, The Dead, which won the Swiss Book Prize and the Hermann Hesse Award.
Christian will be in conversation before taking questions and signing. Please note the Book and Ticket option includes a copy Eurotrash (RRP £9.99) available for collection at the event.

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