German novel about competitive eating
A German novel about the 2001 Nathan’s contest was released last year. The book is titled Die Wetteser (The Competitive Eaters). The novel has the following description on amazon.de (automatically translated)
4 July 2001 was the day, which umstürzte the world of the meal: Takeru Kobayashi, schmächtiger Japanese, plugged in 12 minutes of more Hot Dogs in itself inside than ever humans before it and humiliated with it, just at the independence day, its American competitor. OD Krachie, “the animal”, a white automobile engineer, and Charles Hardy, “the hungry one”, a black improvement officer, two simply knitted Kolosse, both sunk in self-pity and hate on their Japanese opponents: Kazutoyo Arai, “the hare”, a complacent medium star, and Kobayashi, “the prince”, a good-looking Dandy. While for these four men the Hot Dog Wettessen is the most normal thing of the world, Sandra and their clique can imagine hardly something Perverseres. As radical Veganer they fight to spread their message from the animal-suffering-free life to. With the world championship of the meal before Nathan’s nearly Food restaurants hit these two worlds finally one on the other. The Wettesser tells embittered competition, of love in hostile times, of records, low impacts, of counter and other worlds, of strange alliances – and of the normality of the insanity.
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Anonymous said
June 6, 2008 @ 4:05 pm
Loved the novel. Couldn’t put it down. Read it cover to cover.