Laszlo Krasznahorkai. Translated by Otto Mulzet. 
 
Tuskar Rock Press: 2024. First English edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Jacket is fine except for a tiny tear along the bottom. Some bumping on the corners of the boards. 406 pages. Near fine. 
 
Gentle giant Florian, raised by a neo Nazi known as the Boss but seen as the soul of simplicity by others in his town, is in love with and misunderstands particle physics, and so he writes to then-prime minister Angela Merkel about what he believes is the imminent end of the world - all while getting entangled in a mission to catch a graffiti artist defacing statues of Bach. A great set up told in a single sentence. Both a first edition from the Nobel winner and a tour into new territories of fiction. 
 
"Hope is a mistake."