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Air
- Author
- Christian Kracht
- Narrator
- Orlando James
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 16 July 2026
- Run Time
- 4 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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'Ever since his era-defining debut, Christian Kracht has enjoyed a reputation as both a cult and a canonical author ... Air is as enigmatic as its title' TLS
Two men venture through strange landscapes towards unknowable destinations. Paul, a feted designer, wanders the echoing corridors of a server farm in Norway - before, in a sudden blackout, he seems to vanish. In another time and space, a wounded stranger wakes in a forest, watched over by a young girl who helps him flee to an icebound settlement where perhaps he will find safety.
Inventive, enigmatic and chromatically resonant, Air is the seductively disorienting new novel from one of the most significant European writers working today. Heir to the ingenious fictions of Ursula K. Le Guin or Jorge Luis Borges, resistant to single interpretation, it unfolds as a haunting journey through a layered universe that may be a dream, the afterlife or reality's inverted twin.
TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES
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Details
- Author
- Christian Kracht
- Narrator
- Orlando James
- Duration
- 4 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 16 July 2026
- ISBN
- 9781806491667
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Fiction in translation, Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Synopsis
'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' Joshua Cohen'Ever since his era-defining debut, Christian Kracht has enjoyed a reputation as both a cult and a canonical author ... Air is as enigmatic as its title' TLSTwo men venture through strange landscapes towards unknowable destinations. Paul, a feted designer, wanders the echoing corridors of a server farm in Norway - before, in a sudden blackout, he seems to vanish. In another time and space, a wounded stranger wakes in a forest, watched over by a young girl who helps him flee to an icebound settlement where perhaps he will find safety.Inventive, enigmatic and chromatically resonant, Air is the seductively disorienting new novel from one of the most significant European writers working today. Heir to the ingenious fictions of Ursula K. Le Guin or Jorge Luis Borges, resistant to single interpretation, it unfolds as a haunting journey through a layered universe that may be a dream, the afterlife or reality's inverted twin.TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES
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