Death Drives an Audi

Translated by Caroline Waight\r\nKristian Bang Foss darkly comic, prize-winning road-novel\r\nsatire sees two unlikely friends set out to defy the Danish\r\nwelfare state - and Death himself - with both hilarious and\r\ntragic consequences.\r\nLife is looking pretty bleak for Asger. After a fiasco at work\r\nfinds him unceremoniously booted from both his advertising\r\njob and his family home, he finds himself the carer of\r\nWaldemar, arguably Denmarks sickest man.\r\nTheir initial days together in a Copenhagen ghetto only serve\r\nto pile on the hopelessness. But then Waldemar hatches a\r\nplan: fabled healer Torbi el Mekki offers a miracle cure to all\r\nwho seek an audience. Only thing is, hes in Morocco - over\r\ntwo thousand miles and another continent away.\r\nPiling into a beaten-up Volkswagen, the two set off on a zany\r\nroad trip across Europe towards a dubious salvation. But it\r\nsoon seems they may have unwanted company, for on their\r\ntail is a pitch-black Audi...\r\nTender and indignant, satiric and apocalyptic, wildly, flamingly\r\nfunny. - Weekendavisen\r\nWith Kristian Bang Foss, the devil created the world, both nature\r\nand culture, both the desert and the local authorities. This creates\r\ndevilish humor and poetry. It is hopelessly sad and it is damn\r\nfunny. - Politiken