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What is Kraft : A Novel about?
Jonas Lüscher, the author of Barbarian Spring —"a most humorous and convincing satire of the ridiculous excesses of those responsible for the financial crisis" ( The New York Times Book Review )—returns to the topic of neoliberal arrogance in his Swiss Book Prize winning, hilarious and wicked novel about a man facing the ruins of his life, and his world. Richard Kraft, a German professor of rhetoric and aging Reaganite and Knight Rider fan, is unhappily married and badly in debt. He sees no way out of his rut until he is invited to participate in a competition to be held in California and sponsored by a Silicon Valley tycoon and "techno-optimist." The contest is to answer a literal "million-dollar question": each competitor must compose an eighteen-minute lecture on why our world is still, despite all evidence, the best of all possible worlds, and how we might improve it even further through technology. Entering into a surreal...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Recorded Books, Inc.;Luscher, Jonas
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374182144
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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