Category - Fiction / Mystery & Detective
Format - Hardcover
Condition - New
Listed - A year ago
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Est. Publication Date - Jul 2018
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#hardcover#novel in the dead, the follow up to his acclaimed novel imperium, 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 claim swiss film, Director. Emil nägeli received 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. Nägeli’s handlers are unaware, however, that he is colluding with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objective – creating 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 exploding his Swiss visitor. The arrival of nägeli’s film star, fiancé, and 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 there, demons… And their doom. 
Additional Information
The Dead: A Novel
ISBN: 9780374139674
Publisher Description
"Christian Kracht mines the feverish film culture of pre-World War II Germany and Japan for a Gothic tale of global conspiracy, personal loss, and historical entanglements large and small." --
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