The Capital

by Robert Menasse

Book Overview

A highly inventive novel of ideas written in the rich European tradition, The Capital transports readers to the cobblestoned streets of twenty-first-century Brussels. Chosen as the European Union's symbolic capital in 1958, this elusive setting has never been examined so intricately in literature. Translated with "zest, pace and wit" (Spectator) by Jamie Bulloch, Robert Menasse's The Capital plays out the effects of a fiercely nationalistic "union."

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1631495712
• ISBN13: 9781631495717
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"