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OverviewMeasuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s brilliant comic novel revolves around the meeting of two colossal geniuses of the Enlightenment. Late in the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the aristocratic naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, negotiates jungles, voyages down the Orinoco River, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores and measures every cave and hill he comes across. The other, the reclusive and barely socialized mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, can prove that space is curved without leaving his home. Terrifyingly famous and wildly eccentric, these two polar opposites finally meet in Berlin in 1828, and are immediately embroiled in the turmoil of the post-Napolean world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel Kehlmann , Carol Brown JanewayPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Vintage Books Dimensions: Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9780307277398ISBN 10: 0307277399 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 09 October 2007 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 & English & German Table of ContentsReviewsA masterfully realized, wonderfully entertaining and deeply satisfying novel. . . . Addictively readable and genuinely and deeply funny. <br>-- Los Angeles Times <br> Kehlmann's lightly surreal style [is] a mixture of comedy, romance and the macabre, with flashes of magical realism that read like Borges in the Black Forest. <br>-- Washington Post Book World <br> Elegant and measured in design and expression. . . . What distinguishes Kehlmann are quickness of mind and lightness of touch. <br>-- The New York Times Book Review A masterfully realized, wonderfully entertaining and deeply satisfying novel. . . . Addictively readable and genuinely and deeply funny. Los Angeles Times Kehlmann's lightly surreal style [is] a mixture of comedy, romance and the macabre, with flashes of magical realism that read like Borges in the Black Forest. The Washington Post Book World Elegant and measured in design and expression. . . . What distinguishes Kehlmann are quickness ofpace and lightness of touch. The New York Times Book Review A masterfully realized, wonderfully entertaining and deeply satisfying novel. . . . Addictively readable and genuinely and deeply funny. -- Los Angeles Times Kehlmann's lightly surreal style [is] a mixture of comedy, romance and the macabre, with flashes of magical realism that read like Borges in the Black Forest. -- The Washington Post Book World Elegant and measured in design and expression. . . . What distinguishes Kehlmann are quickness of pace and lightness of touch. -- The New York Times Book Review Author InformationDaniel Kehlmann was born in 1975 in Munich, the son of a director and an actress. He attended a Jesuit college in Vienna, traveled widely, and has won several awards for previous novels and short stories, most recently the 2005 Candide Award. His works have been translated into more than twenty languages, and Measuring the World became an instant best seller in several European countries. Kehlmann is spending the fall of 2006 as writer-in-residence at New York University’s Deutsches Haus. He lives in Vienna. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |