Eurotrash

Christian and his mother go on a trip around Switzerland after her discharge from a mental institution. This trip is not an easy one because Christian's eighty-year-old mother is in poor health and is addicted to prescription drugs and alcohol. During this trip, we learn also about the dark history of his mother's parents.

Eurotrash is a short novella that is funny and sad at the same time. It is a auto-fictional work and a sequel to "Faserland" (which has not been translated). However, you can read it as a standalone story.

 

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Quote

It had become a valley of absurdities, my homeland.

Excerpt from the Book:

Anyway, so I had to go to Zurich again for a few days. My mother urgently wished to see me. On the phone she’d said I had better come quickly, please, which was so disturbing that I became terribly anxious and constipated the whole weekend long. Then there was this: I’d written a novel a quarter century ago called Faserland—a forgettable title—which ends in Zurich, out in the middle of the lake, somewhat traumatically.

Details:

• author: Christian Kracht
• full title: Eurotrash
• genre: literary fiction
  
• format/type: bookfiction
• country: Switzerland
• topics: #familytrauma, #addiction
• publisher: Liveright
  
• publish date: October 22, 2024
• pages: 151

Literary Awards:

• Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize) Nominee for Shortlist (2021), 
• Europese Literatuurprijs Nominee for Longlist (2022), 
• Schweizer Buchpreis (Swiss Book Prize) Nominee (2021), 
• Schweizer Literaturpreise / Prix suisses de littérature / Premi svizzeri di letteratura (Swiss Literature Awards) (2022), 
• International Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2025)

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙💙

About the Author:  

Christian Kracht is a Swiss writer and journalist.

Kracht was born in Saanen. His father, Christian Kracht Sr., was chief representative for the Axel Springer publishing company in the 1960s. Kracht attended Schule Schloss Salem in Baden and Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, New York, in 1989.