Jonas Lüscher
1) Kraft
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Richard Kraft, a German professor of rhetoric and aging Reaganite and Knight Rider fan, is unhappily married and badly in debt. He sees no way out of his rut until he is invited to participate in a competition to be held in California and sponsored by a Silicon Valley tycoon and “techno-optimist.” The contest is to answer a literal “million-dollar question”: each competitor must compose an eighteen-minute lecture on why our world is still,...
Author
Publisher
Haus Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Preising finds himself in Tunisia attending the wedding of two City traders from London. At an old Berber oasis transformed into a luxury resort, the bride rides in on a camel to take her vows. As the guests carouse the night away, sterling stands on the brink of collapse and Britannia looks set to slip beneath the waves of bankruptcy and chaos.
Search Tools Get RSS Feed Email this Search