A masterpiece of form and fiction as one of our greatest living writers tackles our fears of environmental disaster

The International Booker Award winner's breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and graffiti vandalism 'Propulsive and revelatory' The New York Times 'A work of genius' 5-star review, Telegraph Gentle giant Florian Herscht is an orphan, adopted by a neo-Nazi who has apprenticed him as a graffiti cleaner. The Boss, a Bach fanatic, is enraged that someone is spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to the famed composer in their east German town. He is determined to punish the culprit and Florian has no choice but to join his gang as they devise a plan to catch him. But Florian has bigger things to worry about: having attended Herr Köhler's adult education classes in physics, he can see that the world might end at any moment. Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai's novel is a tour de force, a moving character study, a blistering satire and devastating encapsulation of our helplessness at the moral and environmental dilemmas we face today.

"Herscht 07769 is a work of genius, astonishingly well translated by Ottilie Mulzet: I can only imagine the labour and dedication involved in capturing the rhythms of Krasznahorkai's clauses, their strange and captivating music" - Telegraph

"Remarkable" - Times Literary Supplement

"Propulsive and revelatory ... Krasznahorkai is a universalist cut loose from the shibboleths of humanism" - The New York Times

"A humane, compelling, intriguing novel ... comedic, if macabre, and cinematic" - Scotsman

"A beast of a book ... vanishingly rare and beguiling" - Daily Mail

"A novel that reaches for wonder and wisdom, and a paean to depth and meaning amid violence and death" - Irish Times

"Innovative to a fault" - Guardian

"A tour-de-force, satirical novel" - Bristol Magazine

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