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Two men venture through strange landscapes towards unknowable destinations.

Paul, a feted designer, wanders the echoing corridors of a server farm in Norway - before, in a sudden blackout, he seems to vanish. In another time and space, a wounded stranger wakes in a forest, watched over by a young girl who helps him flee to an icebound settlement where perhaps he will find safety. Inventive, enigmatic and chromatically resonant, Air is the seductively disorienting new novel from one of the most significant European writers working today.

Heir to the ingenious fictions of Ursula K. Le Guin or Jorge Luis Borges, resistant to single interpretation, it unfolds as a haunting journey through a layered universe that may be a dream, the afterlife or reality's inverted twin.

TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES


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Publication: 16 Jul
2026, Profile 
ISBN: 9781805228844

Extent: 208 pages

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Air by Christian Kracht

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        Description

        Two men venture through strange landscapes towards unknowable destinations.

        Paul, a feted designer, wanders the echoing corridors of a server farm in Norway - before, in a sudden blackout, he seems to vanish. In another time and space, a wounded stranger wakes in a forest, watched over by a young girl who helps him flee to an icebound settlement where perhaps he will find safety. Inventive, enigmatic and chromatically resonant, Air is the seductively disorienting new novel from one of the most significant European writers working today.

        Heir to the ingenious fictions of Ursula K. Le Guin or Jorge Luis Borges, resistant to single interpretation, it unfolds as a haunting journey through a layered universe that may be a dream, the afterlife or reality's inverted twin.

        TRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES


        Paperback
        Publication: 16 Jul
        2026, Profile 
        ISBN: 9781805228844

        Extent: 208 pages

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