Book
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The capital
Call Number
- FICTION MENA (CEN, OSH)
Edition
First American edition.
Publication Information
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.
Physical Description
417 pages ; 25 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
Set on capturing the elusive inner workings of the European Union, Robert Menasse 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. 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 fiercely nationalistic "union."
Notes
"First published in the German language as Die Hauptstadt by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2017"--Title page verso.