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Air: The international bestseller from the author of Eurotrash

Autor Christian Kracht Traducere de Daniel Bowles
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 iul 2026
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER NOMINATED AUTHOR OF EUROTRASH'Playfully surreal ... Kracht has taken a a familiar premise and made it suggestively strange' GUARDIAN'Sublime and funny ... deserves to be his breakout book in the Anglophone world' TELEGRAPH, 5-STAR REVIEW'A master of the well-formed sentence' DANIEL KEHLMANNTwo 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'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 ZINKTranslated from German by Daniel Bowles
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781805228844
ISBN-10: 1805228846
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Christian Kracht is a 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, and Eurotrash, which was nominated for the International Booker Prize.

Recenzii

It is Christian Kracht's fate to be among the last humanists, not to say humans, practising literature as the robots swarm. His Air is part saga, part simulation, which tells of how it feels and how crazy it makes you, to simultaneously hold the mythical and the virtual accountable to true and beautiful words
Christian Kracht is a writer we cannot do without today. Air is a transgression - a form of storytelling that reinvents storytelling itself
In Kracht's nominal realism, a dreamlike air insistently prevails. You read him for the experience of reading him. You read him and wonder
Kracht's elegant and surprising sentences are a pleasure to read ... Air proceeds with seamless dream logic
A splendidly wrong-footing blend of sci-fi and historical fiction ... delivering a thunderbolt twist to make you rethink what you've just read. Mixing an action-thriller chase romp with a brain-teasing novel of ideas, it may be the boldest attempt yet to make fiction out of our data-hungry digital age
Kracht has great fun with Air ... The prose is translucent, in a mesmerising translation by Daniel Bowles
Ever since his era-defining debut, Christian Kracht has enjoyed a reputation as both a cult and a canonical author... Air is as enigmatic as its title
An exploration of the role of fantasy in modern life more generally ... read it twice and Air is revealed to be a puzzle with a certain logic
A consistently surprising work, whose mysteries send you back to the first page the moment it ends
Playfully surreal ... . Kracht has taken a familiar premise - brooding creative types, bored of their own cleverness - and made it suggestively strange
Sublime and funny ... deserves to be his breakout book in the Anglophone world ... a satire on millennial pretensions - something like Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico - but combined with the serious philosophical fantasy of Philip Pullman or Ursula K Le Guin. It doesn't sound as though it could possibly work; but it does, and brilliantly so
Weird, messy - and yet eerily, unaccountably compelling
Such raw mythmaking material ... One of the joys of Air, down to the breathy purity of its title, is its contempt for design-an easy target, but one for which Kracht has sharpened his blade. He doesn't want to be understood, and this is somehow charming
The author spins a stylish kind of strangeness. The writing, in Daniel Bowles's translation from the German, is glass-like and pristine, coloured by the characters' changing moods the way a window is touched by light and shadow
Praise for Eurotrash
Astonishing and captivating
Quite simply a joy to read... a brilliant and unsettling reckoning with history and memory, and with the ambiguities inherent in the art of writing fiction
Not only moving and uplifting, but strangely funny
Deliciously disrespectful ... not only a hilariously unsettling road-trip of a novel, but also an exhilarating read
Reading Christian Kracht's Eurotrash is like holding up a mirror to another mirror and admiring the infinite reflections
Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving
Very funny and very precisely written