Air

Blends the inventiveness of contemporary speculative fiction with the literary verve of Knausgaard - perfect for fans of Hari Kunzru, Solvej Balle or Kazuo Ishiguro

'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' Joshua Cohen 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 PRAISE FOR EUROTRASH:

'Odd and evocative, a frolicking rumination' Times Critics

' Best Book of the Year

'Hilarious, unsettling and unexpectedly moving

' Financial Times Best Translated Book of the Year

About the Author

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