Air

Authors: Christian Kracht & Daniel Bowles

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) | Fiction in translation

Published on 16^th July 2026 by Profile Books Ltd (Serpent's Tail) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 208 pages
198mm x 128mm | 187g

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER NOMINATED AUTHOR OF EUROTRASH'A master of the well-formed sentence' DANIEL KEHLMANN'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' JOSHUA COHEN'Read him for the experience of reading him. Read him and wonder' NELL ZINKTwo 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.

'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' TLSTRANSLATED BY DANIEL BOWLES