![]() ![]() No wonder the European Commission is keen to improve its image. ![]() ![]() Mordantly funny and piercingly urgent, The Capital, the winner of Germany’s highest fiction prize, is an elegantly written, beautifully constructed (Die Zeit) feat of world literature. A hive of tragic heroes, manipulative losers, involuntary accomplices. Set on capturing the elusive inner workings of the European Union, Robert Menasse, one of Austrias most creative thinkers, moved to the EUs headquarters. Other tragic heroes, clever schemers, and involuntary accomplices are intricately woven, revealing the absurdities–and real dangers–of a fiercely nationalistic union. THE PRIZE-WINNING SATIRICAL BESTSELLER FROM THE ACCLAIMED ROBERT MENASSEMORE THAN 500,000 COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEA 'HOUSE OF CARDS' FOR THE EU This is the tale of a continent, a city and its inhabitants as they navigate their way through the confusing tangle of 21st-century life. 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. ![]() The resulting novel has become an international sensation, translated from German into more than twenty languages and deemed the first great EU novel (Politico). Set on capturing the elusive inner workings of the European Union, Robert Menasse, one of Austria’s most creative thinkers, moved to the EU’s headquarters in Brussels for an enthralling, wine-soaked tour of supranational institutions. ![]()
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