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The Dead
Die Toten
Christian Kracht (born 1966)
Translated by Daniel Bowles
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The Dead
Picador · United States · 16 July 2019 · Paperback · 208 pages
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · 17 July 2018 · Hardcover · 208 pages
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The novel takes us into the dazzling, feverish early 1930s, when modernity, and above all the culture of film, was in its last bloom for a while. In Berlin, the spleen of an insecure, tense and unstable nation, a Swiss film director, inspired by a certain Siegfried Kracauer and a certain Lotte Eisner, tries to persuade the UFA tycoon Alfred Hugenberg to finance a film: a horror film, to be precise, and in Japan. There, on the other side of the globe, the mysterious Masahiko Amakasu is at the same time preparing a plot against the global power of Hollywood.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 211 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany, Japan, 1930s
- First published
- 2016 by Kiepenheuer & Witsch
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
9783462045543 (original)
9780374139674 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
9781250214966 (Picador, United States)
- More
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