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Kraft

Kraft

Jonas Lüscher (born 1976)

Translated by Tess Lewis

English editions

In English

• Kraft

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · 10 November 2020 · Hardcover · 224 pages

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• Kraft

  Picador · United States · 2021 · 224 pages

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Richard Kraft, a neoliberal professor of rhetoric in Tübingen, unhappily married and financially battered, may have found a way out of his misery. His old companion István, a professor at Stanford, invites him to Silicon Valley to take part in a prize contest set by a billionaire. Echoing Leibniz's answer to the question of theodicy, Kraft is to explain in an eighteen-minute lecture why everything that is, is good, and why we can nevertheless improve it. The best answer wins a million dollars, enough for Kraft to buy his freedom from his demanding wife. A novel about a man facing the ruins of his life, and a power elite ready to break any taboo.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

235 pages in the original

Genres

Satire, Politics (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, Germany

First published

2017 by C. H. Beck

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9783406705311 (original)

9780374182144 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)

9781250800282 (Picador, United States)

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