Description from Goodreads
A hauntingly beautiful and radically disorienting tale by the International Booker Prize-nominated author of Eurotrash.
Paul, a Swiss interior designer living alone in the remote Orkney Islands, receives an unusual commission from Kuki, a prestigious design travel to a massive data center in Norway and coat its cavernous interior in the “perfect white.” But after a solar storm disrupts the facility, Paul mysteriously vanishes into space and time.
Ildr, a young girl living in another realm, mistakes an oddly dressed stranger for a deer and shoots him with an arrow. Nursing the stranger back to health, she begins to suspect he is not of her world. Soon, the two are fleeing the Duke of Tviot’s murderous soldiers through a myth-haunted landscape, heading toward a subterranean city carved into a cliff above the Frozen Sea—a place rumored to lie beyond the duke’s reach.
Air is Christian Kracht’s most seductively disorienting work a haunting journey through a world that may be a dream, the afterlife, or reality’s inverted twin.
My Thoughts on the Book
Air is one of those experimental books that's not for everyone. It's almost like reading the experimental literary fiction version of The Brothers Lionheart, but for adults and without the message about the afterlife. Funnily enough, that novel by Astrid Lindgren is actually mentioned in Air.
While Air is a weird read at times, I did enjoy the story and the author's writing style. There was a thing or two that was a bit confusing in relation to the Cohen character, but I'll not say what in order to avoid spoilers.
If you're into weird experimental literary fiction, feel free to pick it up, but as mentioned, Air isn't for everyone.
By the way, the English translation of this book comes out some time in July, if I'm not mistaken (I read the Norwegian translation of this book)-
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