Die Toten

The Dead

Author

Christian Kracht

Language

German

Year

2016

First Pub.

Germany

Genre

Novel

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The Dead is a 2016 gothic novel by the Swiss writer Christian Kracht, his fifth novel. It is set in the film industry at the end of the Weimar era and tells the story of a (fictional) Swiss director, Emil Nägeli, and a Japanese government official who try to create a collaboration between German and Japanese cinema. The plot centers around the May 15 Incident.