Robert menasse the capital5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Home Austria Robert Menasse Die Hauptstadt (Capital) Robert Menasse: Die Hauptstadt (Capital) The current prime minister of the United Kingdom. The Capital: A Novel Menasse, Robert Published by Liveright (2019) ISBN 10: 1631495712 ISBN 13: 9781631495717 New Hardcover Quantity: 1 Seller: upickbook (Daly City, CA, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Hardcover. The resulting novel has become an international sensation, translated from German into more than twenty languages and deemed "the first great EU novel" ( Politico). Set 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. ![]()
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