Hear Swiss author Christian Krach read from his most recent novel The Dead and in conversation with his English translator, Professor Daniel Bowles. Kracht’s books have been translated into twenty-seven languages.
The novel is set in the 1930s and tells the story of an acclaimed Swiss film director who receives an assignment to travel to Japan to make a film that establishs the dominance of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi empire.

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