Robert Menasse moved to Brussels to capture the inner workings of the European Union and wrote the novel The Capital. The novel follows various characters working for the EU, including Fenia Xenapoulou who hopes to improve the Commission's image by declaring Auschwitz as its birthplace. Through these characters, Menasse reveals both absurdities and real dangers of a nationalistic union. The Capital won Germany's highest fiction prize and is considered an important work of world literature.

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Set on capturing the elusive inner workings of the European Union, Robert Menasse, one of Austria's most creative
thinkers, moved to the EU's headquarters in Brussels for an enthralling, wine­soaked tour of supranational
institutions. The resulting novel has become an international sensation, translated from German into more than
twenty languages and deemed 'the first great EU novel' (Politico). At the heart of a cast as diverse as the union itself
is Fenia Xenapoulou, a Greek Cypriot recently 'promoted' to the Department of Culture, who hopes to revamp the
European Commission's image by proclaiming Auschwitz as its birthplace with the 'Big Jubilee Project.' Other tragic
heroes, clever schemers, and involuntary accomplices are intricately woven, revealing the absurdities­and real
dangers­of a fiercely nationalistic 'union.' Mordantly funny and piercingly urgent, The Capital, the winner of
Germany's highest fiction prize, is an 'elegantly written, beautifully constructed' (Die Zeit) feat of world literature.

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