Dimensions
131 x 198 x 18mm
An American expat in London receives a piece of news that is nearly incomprehensible: his sister, Miriam, has been found dead in her Berlin flat, of starvation.
Three weeks later, the man, his elderly father, and an American consular official find themselves in an almost unbearably strange place: a fogbound Munich Airport, where Miriam's coffin is to be loaded onto a commercial jet. Munich Airport tells the story of these three people over those weeks - waiting for Miriam's body to be released, sifting through her possessions, puzzling over the mystery of her awful death, and trying to possess a share of her suffering, her yearning and her grace. It is a novel for our time, a work of richness, gravity, and dark humour. It marks the establishment of Greg Baxter as an important new voice in literature, one who has already drawn comparisons to masters such as Kafka, Camus, and Murakami.
'This rich and profound book is full of philosophical ideas and stark, ascetic beauty . . . I wholeheartedly recommend Munich Airport to everyone interested in the ongoing and fascinating human conversation that is first-rate fiction.' Guardian
'Mesmeric . . . The three central characters are beautifully drawn, their personalities unveiled for us during a series of understated revelations.' Independent
'A story . . . about the age in which we live, the nature of consumption, and the terrors that beset us and alienate us from ourselves and each other . . . So much more bracing and consequential than the bulk of contemporary fiction.' Irish Times
'Assured and fluent . . . a forensic examination of what it means today to be a man, and to be human.' TLS
