Herscht 07769

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

Laszlo Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet, Ottilie Mulzet

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01 December 2025

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

The International Booker Award winner's breathtaking new novel about neo-Nazis, particle physics, and graffiti vandalism

'Propulsive and revelatory' The New York Times

'A work of genius' 5-star review, Telegraph

Gentle giant Florian Herscht is an orphan, adopted by a neo-Nazi who has apprenticed him as a graffiti cleaner. The Boss, a Bach fanatic, is enraged that someone is spraying wolf emblems across the monuments to the famed composer in their east German town. He is determined to punish the culprit and Florian has no choice but to join his gang as they devise a plan to catch him. But Florian has bigger things to worry about: having attended Herr Köhler's adult education classes in physics, he can see that the world might end at any moment.

Written in one cascading sentence with the power of atomic particles colliding, Krasznahorkai's novel is a tour de force, a moving character study, a blistering satire and devastating encapsulation of our helplessness at the moral and environmental dilemmas we face today.

By: Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Contributions by: Ottilie Mulzet
Translated by: Ottilie Mulzet
Imprint: Profile
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781800815063
ISBN 10: 1800815069
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Laszlo Krasznahorkai has won the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement and the 2024 Prix Formentor for lifetime achievement. Several of his most famous novels including Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance were turned into films by the director BÃ©la Tarr.Ottilie Mulzet is a literary critic and translator of Hungarian. She received the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature in and the 2014 Best Translated Book Award.

Reviews for Herscht 07769: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2025

'Herscht 07769 is a work of genius, astonishingly well translated by Ottilie Mulzet: I can only imagine the labour and dedication involved in capturing the rhythms of Krasznahorkai's clauses, their strange and captivating music' - 5-star review, Telegraph 'Remarkable' - Times Literary Supplement 'Propulsive and revelatory ... Krasznahorkai is a universalist cut loose from the shibboleths of humanism' - The New York Times 'A humane, compelling, intriguing novel... comedic, if macabre, and cinematic' -Scotsman