''Eurotrash'' is a 2021

autobiographical novel An autobiographical novel, also known as an autobiographical fiction, fictional autobiography, or autobiographical fiction novel, is a type of novel which uses autofiction techniques, or the merging of autobiographical and fictive elements. The ...

by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht. His seventh novel to date, it is about a jaded middle-aged man and his 80 year old mother on a road trip through their native Switzerland. It is a sequel to Kracht's 1995 debut novel '' Faserland'', featuring the same protagonist 25 years later. The book was shortlisted for the German Book Prize and Swiss Book Prize. Upon its 2024 publication in the United Kingdom with Serpent's Tail, the ''

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'' wrote "Quite simply a joy to read ... The narrator's mother is an unforgettable literary creation and Eurotrash is a brilliant and unsettling reckoning with history and memory, and with the ambiguities inherent in the art of writing fiction", while ''

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'' chose the novel as one of the best books of 2024. The novel was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2025. Marcel Theroux wrote in ''

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'' "Short but hefty, Eurotrash is a book about ageing that’s steeped in a guilty knowingness about privilege, wealth and the 20th century. There’s something bracing about the narrator’s pained awareness that if there’s such a thing as the wrong side of history, he and his family are firmly on it." Different theatre versions have been staged at Vienna´s Burgtheater, at Schaubühne in Berlin, at Thalia Theater in Hamburg and at Bern Theatre, in Switzerland.

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