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Herscht 07769

By László Krasznahorkai

Herscht 07769

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A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 A PUBLISHERS WEEKY BEST BOOK OF 2024 The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler's adult education classes in physics, he is convinced that disaster is imminent. And so, he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, to convince her of the danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter. Otherwise, he works for the Boss (the head of a local neo-Nazi gang), who has taken him under his wing and gotten him work as a graffiti cleaner and also a one-room apartment in the small eastern German town of Kana. The Boss is enraged by a graffiti artist who, with wolf emblems, is defacing all the various monuments to Johann Sebastian Bach in Thuringia. A Bach fanatic and director of an amateur orchestra, he is determined to catch the culprit with the help of his gang, and Florian has no choice but to join the chase. The situation becomes even more frightening, and havoc ensues, when real wolves are sighted in the area... Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai's novel is a tour de force, a morality play, a blistering satire, a devastating encapsulation of our helplessness when confronted with the moral and environmental dilemmas we face.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
416
Release Date:
2024-09-24
Publication Date:
2024-09-24
Publisher:
Norton & Company
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0811231534
ISBN13:
9780811231534
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
412 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
201 cm
Thickness:
30 cm
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