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Herscht 07769
[Hardback - 2000]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Tuskar Rock Press | ISBN: 9781800815056 | Pages: 448
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The International Booker Award winner's breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and graffiti vandalism

'Propulsive and revelatory' The New York Times

'A work of genius' Telegraph

Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler's classes in particle physics for two years, he is convinced that global cataclysm is imminent. And so he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, hoping to convince her of the imminent danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter.

Written in one cascading sentence with the force of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai's latest novel is a tour de force, a morality play of blistering satire, a devastating encapsulation of our helplessness in the face of the moral and environmental dilemmas we face.

László Krasznahorkai was born in Gyula, Hungary, in 1954. He has written five novels and won numerous prizes, including the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction for Satantango, the same prize the following year for Seiobo There Below, and the 1993 Best Book of the Year Award in Germany for The Melancholy of Resistance. He was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017 for The World Goes On, and won the same prize in 2015 in its original guise as a biennial prize rewarding an outstanding body of work. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in the hills of Pilisszentlászló in Hungary.



Ottilie Mulzet won the Best Translated Book Award in 2014 for her translation of László Krasznahorkai's Seiobo there Below. She has also translated the work of Szilárd Borbély, Gábor Schein, and György Dragomán.

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