Air

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 – Joshua CohenChristian Kracht is a writer we cannot do without today. Air is a transgression - a form of storytelling that reinvents storytelling itself – Georgi Gospodinov, International Booker-winning author of Time ShelterIn Kracht’s nominal realism, a dreamlike air insistently prevails. You read him for the experience of reading him. You read him and wonder – Nell Zink, author of Sister EuropeEver 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 * TLS *Praise for Eurotrash – :Astonishing and captivating – Karl Ove KnausgaardQuite 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 * Sunday Times *Not only moving and uplifting, but strangely funny * Guardian *Deliciously disrespectful … not only a hilariously unsettling road-trip of a novel, but also an exhilarating read * Financial Times *Reading Christian Kracht’s Eurotrash is like holding up a mirror to another mirror and admiring the infinite reflections * New Statesman *Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving * Washington Post *Very funny and very precisely written * TLS *

Christian Kracht is a Swiss novelist whose work has been translated into thirty languages. His novels include Faserland, 1979, Imperium, The Dead (winner of the Swiss Book Prize and the Hermann Hesse Award), and Eurotrash (nominated for the International Booker Prize).

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