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A wryly comic account of a career in meltdown, from the author of Measuring the World 'An accessible and humorous road trip into the worlds of art and journalism, satirising both' - New Statesman Sebastian Zollner is set on writing the biography of the painter Manuel Kaminski. Yet Kaminski - once a pupil of Matisse, now an ailing recluse - is not the kind of character to willingly embrace such a project. And Zollner - inept, charmless, and with scant knowledge of art history - is hardly the man to undertake it. So it's a good job Sebastian has an ace up his sleeve, and that Kaminski will have little choice in the matter... Half road novel, half satire on the contemporary art scene, Kaminski and Me is a wryly humorous meditation on art, memory, and identity.

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The novel barrels along like a top-of-the-range BMW on a deserted autobahn The comedy has a touching, tender precision gear-shifting subtlety of the finale - Independent. Very funny Sparkling and consistently amusing comedy, by turns broad and sophisticated - Daily Telegraph. An accessible and humouous road trip...fun, fast and thoroughly enjoyable - New Statesman. Kehlmann's novel satirises the biographer's egomania with viciousness and accuracy' Observer. Witty, shrewd and smartly translated novel ... He (Daniel Kehlmann) is too quick-witted and too alive to the ironies of the situation he has created, to let tension slacken It's a bleak conclusion but in the steely comedy of Kehlmann's narrative one that feels cathartic almost to the extent of seeming delightful' Andrew Motion, Guardian.

The novel barrels along like a top-of-the-range BMW on a deserted autobahn The comedy has a touching, tender precision gear-shifting subtlety of the finale - Independent. Very funny Sparkling and consistently amusing comedy, by turns broad and sophisticated - Daily Telegraph. An accessible and humouous road trip...fun, fast and thoroughly enjoyable - New Statesman. Kehlmann's novel satirises the biographer's egomania with viciousness and accuracy' Observer. Witty, shrewd and smartly translated novel ... He (Daniel Kehlmann) is too quick-witted and too alive to the ironies of the situation he has created, to let tension slacken It's a bleak conclusion but in the steely comedy of Kehlmann's narrative one that feels cathartic almost to the extent of seeming delightful' Andrew Motion, Guardian.

The novel barrels along like a top-of-the-range BMW on a deserted autobahn...The comedy has a touching, tender precision ... gear-shifting subtlety of the finale - Independent. Very funny ...Sparkling and consistently amusing comedy, by turns broad and sophisticated - Daily Telegraph. An accessible and humouous road trip...fun, fast and thoroughly enjoyable - New Statesman. Kehlmann's novel satirises the biographer's egomania with viciousness and accuracy' Observer. Witty, shrewd and smartly translated novel ... He (Daniel Kehlmann) is too quick-witted and too alive to the ironies of the situation he has created, to let tension slacken ... It's a bleak conclusion but in the steely comedy of Kehlmann's narrative one that feels cathartic almost to the extent of seeming delightful' Andrew Motion, Guardian.

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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.

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