Eurotrash

Eurotrash by Christian Kracht, translated by Daniel Bowles, is a darkly comic and deeply unsettling exploration of family, guilt, and the inescapable weight of history. When a middle-aged man and his eighty-year-old mother—recently released from a mental institution—set out on a bizarre road trip across Switzerland to give away her vast fortune earned through arms investments, their journey becomes a descent into personal and historical reckoning. As they traverse the country in a hired cab, haunted by the legacy of a Nazi-sympathizing patriarch, their attempts to shed wealth unravel into moments of tenderness, spite, and revelation. Both hilarious and harrowing, Eurotrash is a brilliantly caustic, intensely personal novel that confronts the moral and emotional wreckage of Europe’s past with wit, irony, and painful honesty.