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A probing masterpiece-in-miniature of self-reflection and cultural reckoning.
From “the great German-language writer of his generation” (Joshua Cohen) comes the second novel of Christian Kracht’s career narrated by an eponymous “Christian” (the first was his best-selling debut, Faserland). Eurotrash begins in Zurich, where Christian has returned to care for his 80-year-old mother after her discharge from a psychiatric institution. Confronting the dark shadows of his family’s past—particularly his grandfather’s strong ties with the Nazi regime—and struggling to navigate the emotionally wrenching terrain of his relationship with his mother, he sets off on a road trip with her. As they traverse Switzerland together in a hired cab, mother and son attempt to give away her vast fortune, stuffed in a large plastic bag, to random strangers.
By turns disturbing, disorienting, hilarious, and poignant, and brilliantly rendered in English by prize-winning translator Daniel Bowles, Eurotrash tells an intensely personal and unsparingly critical story of contemporary culture; a story that shows us a writer at the pinnacle of his powers of insight and observation.
©2024 Christian Kracht; Translation copyright 2024 Daniel Bowles (P)2024 Audible Inc.Los oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates.
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Resonant Layers
- De Robert C. Ashley en 12-17-23
De: Jenny Erpenbeck
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On the Calculation of Volume, Book II
- De: Solvej Balle
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Liang
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies herself to leap into November nineteenth. Book II of Solvej Balle’s astounding seven-part series On the Calculation of Volume beautifully expands on the speculative premise of Book I, drawing us further into the maze of time, where space yawns open, as if suddenly gaining a new dimension, extending into ever more fined-grained textures.
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Story loses momentum in Book II
- De elebras en 07-02-25
De: Solvej Balle
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The Dead
- A Novel
- De: Christian Kracht, Daniel Bowles - translator
- Narrado por: Julian Elfer
- Duración: 3 h y 50 m
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In Berlin, Germany, in the early 1930s, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil Nägeli receives the assignment of a lifetime: travel to Japan and make a film to establish the dominance of Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire once and for all. But his handlers are unaware Nägeli has colluded with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objective - to create a monumental, modernist, allegorical spectacle to warn the world of the horror to come.
De: Christian Kracht, y otros
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The Book of Guilt
- De: Catherine Chidgey
- Narrado por: George Naylor, Alison Campbell
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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In 1979, in a version of England where nobody won WWII, 13-year-old triplets are the only boys left in an orphanage whose dark secret is the reason for their existence– and the key to their survival.
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The Last Samurai
- De: Helen DeWitt
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Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.)
De: Helen DeWitt
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The Children of the Dead
- De: Elfriede Jelinek, Gitta Honegger - translator
- Narrado por: Christa Lewis
- Duración: 20 h y 9 m
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The Alpenrose is a mountain resort nestled in Austria's scenic landscape among historic churches and castles. It is a vacation idyll that attracts tourists from all over Europe. It is also a mass burial site. Amid the snow-topped peaks and panoramic vistas, ghosts haunt the forest: Edgar Gstranz, a young skier who died in a car crash; Gudrun Bichler, a philosophy student who committed suicide in her bathtub; and Karin Frenzel, a widow who (perhaps) died in a bus accident.
De: Elfriede Jelinek, y otros
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The Eighth Life
- De: Nino Haratischvili
- Narrado por: Tavia Gilbert
- Duración: 40 h y 56 m
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At the start of the 20th century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified: this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste....
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Great Historical Fiction about Georgia and the Soviet Union
- De Amazon Customer en 05-29-21
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Pedro Páramo
- De: Juan Rulfo, Douglas J. Weatherford - translator
- Narrado por: Thom Rivera
- Duración: 4 h y 37 m
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A masterpiece of the surreal that influenced a generation of writers in Latin America, Pedro Páramo is the otherworldly tale of one man’s quest for his lost father. That man swears to his dying mother that he will find the father he has never met—Pedro Páramo—but when he reaches the town of Comala, he finds it haunted by memories and hallucinations. There emerges the tragic tale of Páramo himself, and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul.
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A Masterpiece ✍🏾📖✍🏾
- De Essam Rajab en 12-22-24
De: Juan Rulfo, y otros
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The Pilgrimage
- De: John Broderick, Colm Toibin - foreword
- Narrado por: Patrick Moy
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
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Wealthy and devout, Michael and Julia Glynn are the envy of their neighbors and the model Irish Catholic couple, bearing Michael's increasingly painful and crippling arthritis with stoicism. In hope of a miracle, their priest suggests a family pilgrimage to Lourdes. Yet these pious holiday plans are thrown into doubt when anonymous, obscene letters begin to arrive, full of terrible accusations.
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Soldier Sailor
- A Novel
- De: Claire Kilroy
- Narrado por: Simone Collins
- Duración: 6 h y 15 m
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Claire Kilroy takes listeners deep inside the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love with a seismic shift in identity, Kilroy conjures the raw, tumultuous emotions of a new mother, as her marriage strains and she struggles with questions of equality, autonomy, and creativity.
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Favorite book of 2024!
- De Ana en 04-09-25
De: Claire Kilroy
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Milkman
- De: Anna Burns
- Narrado por: Bríd Brennan
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes "interesting" - the last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed, and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is a story of inaction with enormous consequences.
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Like the writing, not the audio issues
- De Criticalthinker en 12-31-18
De: Anna Burns
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Heart Lamp
- Selected Stories
- De: Deepa Bhasthi - translator, Banu Mushtaq
- Narrado por: Deepti Gupta, Vikas Adam
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression.
De: Deepa Bhasthi - translator, y otros
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The Employees
- A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
- De: Olga Ravn
- Narrado por: Hannah Curtis
- Duración: 2 h y 31 m
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Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos. When the ship takes on a number of strange objects from the planet New Discovery, the crew becomes strangely and deeply attached to them, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.
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I think this was a story?
- De Jordan en 07-02-23
De: Olga Ravn
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The Man Without Qualities
- De: Robert Musil
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 60 h y 30 m
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In 1913, the Viennese aristocracy is gathering to celebrate the 17th jubilee of the accession of Emperor Franz Josef, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing and the rest of Vienna is showing signs of rebellion. At the centre of this social labyrinth is Ulrich: a veteran, a seducer and a scientist, yet also a man 'without qualities' and therefore a brilliant and detached observer of his changing world.
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An unmatched intellectual epic
- De Delano en 06-23-22
De: Robert Musil
The relationship between son and mother.
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Beautifully cynical and heartwarming
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I loved the interaction between mother and son
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