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010 _a 2024031971
020 _a9780811231534
_q(paperback)
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_q(ebook)
035 _a23774354
040 _aau
_beng
_erda
_cau
041 1 _aeng
_hhun
042 _apcc
049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 0 0 _aPH3281.K8866
_bH4713 2024
100 1 _aKrasznahorkai, Lâaszlâo,
_eauthor.
240 1 0 _aHerscht 07769.
_lEnglish
245 1 0 _aHerscht 07769 :
_ba novel /
_cLâaszlâo Krasznahorkai ; translated by Ottilie Mulzet.
260 _c2024
263 _a2410
264 1 _aNew York :
_bNew Directions Publishing Corporation,
_c2024.
300 _a406 pages
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Kèohler'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. Florian 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 in the small eastern German town of Kana. The Boss is enraged by a graffiti artist who is defacing the various monuments to Johann Sebastian Bach in Thuringia with wolf emblems. A Bach fanatic and director of an amateur orchestra, the Boss is determined to catch the culprit with the help of his gang. Florian has no choice but to join the chase. 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 hilarious and devastating encapsulation of our helplessness at the moral and environmental dilemmas we face today"--
655 7 _aSatirical fiction.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aNovels.
_2lcgft
655 0 _aPrint books.
_2local
_94
700 1 _aMulzet, Ottilie,
_etranslator.
942 _2lcc
_cBOOKS
999 _c608048
_d608048