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Gothic tapestry of pre-war film and conspiracy.

If you're fascinated by the intermingling of history with a touch of the ominous, "The Dead" should be your next read. Christian Kracht crafts a narrative that doesn't just recount events but enfolds you with an atmospheric blend of cultural elements, from Germany to Japan, opening your eyes to a haunting version of the past. This isn't just a book; it's an immersion into a time where the cogs of global conflict were just beginning to turn, all through the lens of a film culture that feels both distant and eerily current.

  • Schweizer Buchpreis (Swiss Book Prize) (2016)
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ISBN: 9780374139674
Date of Publication: 2018-07-17
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Contemporary, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: World War II, War
Goodreads rating: 3.44
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A tale of international conspiracy, cinematic intrigue, memory, mysticism, and murder. In The Dead, the follow-up to his acclaimed novel Imperium (a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year), Christian Kracht mines the feverish early days of Weimar Germany for a Gothic tale of global conspiracy, personal loss, and historical entanglements large and small. In Berlin, Germany, in the early 1930s, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil Nägeli receives 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. But his handlers are unaware that Nägeli has colluded with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objective — to create 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 exploiting his Swiss visitor. The arrival of Nägeli’s film-star fiancée and a 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 their demons . . . and their doom.
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Gothic tapestry of pre-war film and conspiracy.

If you're fascinated by the intermingling of history with a touch of the ominous, "The Dead" should be your next read. Christian Kracht crafts a narrative that doesn't just recount events but enfolds you with an atmospheric blend of cultural elements, from Germany to Japan, opening your eyes to a haunting version of the past. This isn't just a book; it's an immersion into a time where the cogs of global conflict were just beginning to turn, all through the lens of a film culture that feels both distant and eerily current.

  • Schweizer Buchpreis (Swiss Book Prize) (2016)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.