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The capital : a Novel by Menasse, Robert; Bulloch, Jamie is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Winner of the German Book Prize, The Capital is an "omniscient, almost Balzac-ian" (Steven Erlanger, New York Times) panorama of splintered Europe. Set on capturing the elusive inner workings of the European Union, Robert Menasse, one of Austria’s most creative thinkers, moved to the EU’s headquarters in Brussels for an enthralling, wine-soaked tour of supranational institutions. The resulting novel has become an international sensation, translated from German into more than twenty languages and deemed "the first great EU novel" (Politico). At the heart of a cast as diverse as the union itself is Fenia Xenapoulou, a Greek Cypriot recently "promoted" to the Department of Culture, who hopes to revamp the European Commission’s image by proclaiming Auschwitz as its birthplace with the "Big Jubilee Project." Other tragic heroes, clever schemers, and involuntary accomplices are intricately woven, revealing the absurdities—and real dangers—of a...

Who reads The capital : a Novel?

Author

Menasse, Robert; Bulloch, Jamie

Publisher

Liveright; Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781631495717

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.8 / 5 (171 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14