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    The Dead: A Novel
    The Dead: A Novel
    The Dead: A Novel
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    The Dead: A Novel

    Written by Christian Kracht

    Narrated by Julian Elfer

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    In The Dead, the follow-up to his acclaimed novel Imperium (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year), Christian Kracht mines the feverish film culture of the 1930s to produce a Gothic tale of global conspiracy, personal loss, and historical entanglements large and small.

    In 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.

    Meanwhile, 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 fiancee 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    TranslatorDaniel Bowles
    Release dateJul 17, 2018
    ISBN9781977384669
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    Christian Kracht

    Christian Kracht is a Swiss novelist whose books have been translated into thirty languages. The Dead was the recipient of the Hermann Hesse Literature Prize and the Swiss Book Prize.

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    • 4/5
      I simply like Kracht. I adore "Faserland" but i also liked "Imperium" and "Die Toten" even if i can´t really nail it down.