Herscht 07769 Author Surname:Krasznahorkai

Herscht 07769 Author Surname:KrasznahorkaiFlorian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Khler'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

at the dining room table

and the blind one's claim that she can 'see' the deceased child sitting with her parents

000 euros and her immediate resignation

this book features a quotation for every day of the year

Jasper was eight years old when he was kidnapped and raised by a killer

This novel was made into a 1938 British crime film starring Barry Jones and Jessica Tandy

With the clock ticking

In this intimate history of the extraordinary Great Plague that swept through the British Isles in 1665-66

or her heart

unused ideas

whose murder he must solve if he is to avoid the dreaded vision of The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come

All their eldest sons die before their twenty-fourth birthdays