Eurotrash

The novel "Eurotrash" tells the story of a journey with a mother who is emotionally and physically fragile. In a taxi and on a mountain railway, they travel through the former Swiss homeland. The trip becomes a brutally tender exploration of the childhood of Christian, who is the author Kracht, but always a different person in that role. The unflinching look at the family's history and their entanglement in the shadows of World War II gives the book its unparalleled energy, humor, and intensity, qualities that only art can possess.