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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'Resonant and spiky' DAILY MAIL'Brilliantly caustic' i PAPERRealising 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 KnausgaardTRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES

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      Published 11 June 2025
      ISBN-13 9781805226598
      978-1805226598
      ISBN-10 1805226592
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      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'Resonant and spiky' DAILY MAIL'Brilliantly caustic' i PAPERRealising 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 KnausgaardTRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES

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