{"product_id":"the-dead-paperback-4","title":"Dead - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristian Kracht\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A great Faustian fable, and a literary endeavor of historical ingenuity that we now may start to characterize as Krachtian.\" --Karl Ove Knausgaard \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe follow-up to Christian Kracht's acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eImperium\u003c\/i\u003e (a \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of the Year), \u003ci\u003e The Dead \u003c\/i\u003emines the feverish early years of the Nazis' rise to power for a Gothic tale of global conspiracy, personal loss, and historical entanglements large and small. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Berlin, Germany, in the early 1930s, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil Nägeli receives the assignment of a lifetime: travel to Japan and make a film to establish the dominance of Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire once and for all. But his handlers are unaware that Nägeli has colluded with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objective--to create a monumental, modernist, allegorical spectacle to warn the world of the horror to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile, in Japan, the film minister Masahiko Amakasu intends to counter Hollywood's growing influence and usher in a new golden age of Japanese cinema by exploiting his Swiss visitor. The arrival of Nägeli's film-star fiancée and a strangely thuggish, pistol-packing Charlie Chaplin--as well as the first stirrings of the winds of war--soon complicates both Amakasu's and Nägeli's plans, forcing them to face their demons . . . and their doom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is the beautiful, brilliant, and utterly mad novel that Thomas Mann would have written had he known the East like Yukio Mishima and loved his adopted Hollywood with the gusto of Nathanael West.\" --Joshua Cohen \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of love and sadness in times when the weak were broken by the unforgiving ideologies of fascism and National Socialism . . . I read \u003ci\u003eThe Dead\u003c\/i\u003e twice in a row, first for the story and then for the beauty of the prose.\" --Sjón \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Kracht\u003c\/b\u003e is a Swiss novelist whose books have been translated into thirty languages. His novel \u003ci\u003eThe Dead\u003c\/i\u003e was the recipient of the Hermann Hesse literature prize and the Swiss Book Prize. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Bowles\u003c\/b\u003e teaches German studies at Boston College. His previous translations include novels by Thomas Meinecke and short texts by Alexander Kluge and Rainald Goetz.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.1 x 4.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 16, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42124641697927,"sku":"9781250214966","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/bc8253059657be2f983c1c5ae04955ba.webp?v=1732571677","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-dead-paperback-4","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}