Acclaimed interior designer Paul receives a mysterious commission to travel to a data centre in Norway and paint the entire hangar a perfect white. While he wanders the empty corridors of the facility, a freak electrical event occurs, and Paul vanishes. Elsewhere in time and space, a young girl named Ildr shoots a man with an arrow, mistaking him for a deer. Her and the oddly dressed stranger quickly realise they are from different worlds, and together must flee the tyrant ruling the forested pre- or post-apocalyptic landscape they find themselves in. Seductive, disorienting and wholly original, Christian Kracht''s Air is a feat of storytelling that defies the very fabric of nature itself.

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Christian Kracht

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'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' Joshua Cohen

'Ever since his era-defining debut, Christian Kracht has enjoyed a reputation as both a cult and a canonical author ... Air is as enigmatic as its title' TLS

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