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The Dead
A Literary Fiction Novel by Christian Kracht
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- Nazi Germany,
- Japan
This book is for you if you're into...
- Film industry intrigue set in prewar Berlin and Japan
- Plots within plots with shifting allegiances and secret agendas
- Historical fiction where art and politics collide on a global stage
In Berlin, Germany, in the early 1930s, the acclaimed Swiss film director Emil Nägeli receives the assignment of a lifetime: travel to Japan and make a film to establish the dominance of Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire once and for all. But his handlers are unaware that Nägeli has colluded with the Jewish film critics to pursue an alternative objective—to create a monumental, modernist, allegorical spectacle to warn the world of the horror to come.
Meanwhile, in Japan, the film minister Masahiko Amakasu intends to counter Hollywood's growing influence and usher in a new golden age of Japanese cinema by exploiting his Swiss visitor. The arrival of Nägeli's film-star fiancée and a strangely thuggish, pistol-packing Charlie Chaplin—as well as the first stirrings of the winds of war—soon complicates both Amakasu's and Nägeli's plans, forcing them to face their demons . . . and their doom.
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