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040			_aKenya National Library Service
082			_a833.914 MEN
100			_aMenasse, Robert, _eauthor.
245			_aThe Capital / _cRobert Menasse ; Translatd from the German by Jamie Bulloch.
250			_aFirst American edition.
300			_a 417 pages ; _c25 cm.
520			_aSet 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. The resulting novel has become an international sensation, translated from German into more than twenty languages and deemed "the first great EU novel" (Politico). 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." Other tragic heroes, clever schemers, and involuntary accomplices are intricately woven, revealing the absurdities--and real dangers--of a fiercely nationalistic "union." 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.
650			_aEuropean fiction.
700			_aBulloch, Jamie, _etranslator.
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