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OverviewImagine being famous. Wouldn't that be great? 'A real beauty of a book' - Jonathan Franzen 'Riffs echo through this playful, perplexing landscape' - The Times But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where no one spoke your language. Where no one knew your face and you had no way of contacting home. How would your fame help you then? What would happen if someone got hold of your mobile phone? If they spoke to your girlfriends, your agent, your director and started making decisions for you. And when no one believed that you were you any more, when you saw a lookalike acting your roles for you, what would you do? In this delightfully entertaining book, Daniel Kehlmann throws his characters into situations that are thrilling, funny, surprising and tragic, confirming his place as one of his generation's finest writers. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel Kehlmann , Carol Brown Janeway , Carol Brown JanewayPublisher: Quercus Publishing Imprint: riverrun Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.60cm Weight: 0.161kg ISBN: 9781849163781ISBN 10: 1849163782 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 01 September 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsOne of the most consistently original novelists writing today. * New European * 'Ingenious' * Daily Telegraph * 'Riffs echo through this playful, perplexing landscape' * The Times * 'Brilliant' * Independent * 'A real beauty of a book' * Jonathan Franzen * 'Kafkaesque' * Time Out * 'Extraordinary' * Guardian * 'A real beauty of a book, farcical, satiric, melancholic, and humane' Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom. 'Riffs echo through this playful, perplexing landscape' Times. 'Brilliant' Independent. 'Extraordinary' Guardian. 'Ingenious' Daily Telegraph. 'Excellent' The Times. 'Kafkaesque' Time Out. 'A real beauty of a book' Jonathan Franzen. 'Riffs echo through this playful, perplexing landscape' Times. 'Brilliant' Independent. 'Extraordinary' Guardian. 'Ingenious' Daily Telegraph. 'Kafkaesque' Time Out. 'Ingenious' Daily Telegraph. Daily Telegraph 'Riffs echo through this playful, perplexing landscape' Times. The Times 'Brilliant' Independent. Independent 'A real beauty of a book' Jonathan Franzen. Jonathan Franzen 'Kafkaesque' Time Out. Time Out 'Extraordinary' Guardian. Guardian 'A real beauty of a book, farcical, satiric, melancholic, and humane' Jonathan Franzen, author of Freedom. Author InformationAuthor Website: http://www.kehlmann.com/Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. He has published six novels: Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski, Fame, F, You Should Have Left and Tyll and has won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, The Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature. Tab Content 6Author Website: http://www.kehlmann.com/Countries AvailableAll regions |