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Theodor Adorno spent his life doing something most of us are trained from childhood to avoid: he looked directly at the cracks. Not the dramatic ruptures that make the news, but the hairline fractures running through ordinary life — the cheerful jingle that teaches obedience, the promise of freedom that quietly hardens into a system of control, the reasonable-sounding consensus that turns out to have been manufactured. Where others heard harmony, he heard the wrong note. And he refused, on principle, to pretend he hadn't.

The Stupid Ways to Die series is a globally-minded, darkly funny, affectionately sarcastic survey of the most creative, most avoidable, and most uniquely local ways that humans have found to accidentally check out early. Each volume focuses on a single country or region, celebrating the specific intersection of culture, geography, wildlife, and optimism that makes each nation's flavor of preventable death distinctly its own.