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FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER NOMINATED AUTHOR OF EUROTRASH

‘A master of the well-formed sentence’ Daniel Kehlmann

‘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 Zink

‘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’ TLS

Two 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.

TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES

Publisher Review

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 Cohen Christian 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 Shelter In 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 Europe 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 * TLS * Praise for Eurotrash -- : Astonishing and captivating -- Karl Ove Knausgaard 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 * 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 *