From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse "It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air." This passage is from the first entry of a journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann's spellbinding new novel. It is the record of the seven days that he, his wife, and his four-year-old daughter spend in a house they have rented in the mountains of Germany--a house that thwarts the expectations of the narrator's recollection and seems to defy the very laws of physics. He is eager to finish a screenplay for a sequel to the movie that launched his career, but something he cannot explain is undermining his convictions and confidence, a process he is recording in this account of the uncanny events that unfold as he tries to understand what, exactly, is happening around him--and within him.
From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse "It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air." This passage is from the first entry of a journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann's spellbinding new novel. It is the record of the seven days that he, his wife, and his four-year-old daughter spend in a house they have rented in the mountains of Germany--a house that thwarts the expectations of the narrator's recollection and seems to defy the very laws of physics. He is eager to finish a screenplay for a sequel to the movie that launched his career, but something he cannot explain is undermining his convictions and confidence, a process he is recording in this account of the uncanny events that unfold as he tries to understand what, exactly, is happening around him--and within him.
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Historical fiction and metaphysical satire take central stage in international German-language literature through inventive reimaginings of historical icons, scientific ambition, and folklore. The novelist and playwright Daniel Kehlmann achieved widespread recognition with Measuring the World, an inventive historical novel depicting the contrasting lives and methods of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.
Born in Munich on January 13, 1975, Daniel Kehlmann is the son of television director Michael Kehlmann and actress Dagmar Mettler. He moved with his parents to Vienna at age six, growing up in the city's 23rd district and obtaining dual German and Austrian citizenship. Kehlmann published his early literary works while completing his studies, quickly building an international readership. His breakout novel, Measuring the World (2005), became one of the most commercially and critically successful post-war German novels and was translated into more than forty languages. He continued publishing acclaimed fiction including Me and Kaminski, Fame, F, and The Director. In 2017, he published Tyll, translated into English by Ross Benjamin, which reimagined the folklore trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War and was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Over his career, Kehlmann has been honored with major awards such as the Candide Prize, the Doderer Prize, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and the Thomas Mann Prize. He divides his time between Vienna, Berlin, and New York.
Kehlmann's prose is characterized by its blend of meticulous historical research, philosophical inquiries into truth, and dark, metafictional humor. His works frequently investigate the boundary between reality and fiction, the fallibility of memory, and the tragicomic limits of human reason. In works such as the 2016 psychological novella You Should Have Left, he utilizes elements of horror and spatial disorientation to trace a screenwriter's mental breakdown in an isolated mountain home. Across his historical novels and contemporary satires, his writing balances philosophical depth with accessible, swift narrative structure.
4 books in catalog
Historical fiction and metaphysical satire take central stage in international German-language literature through inventive reimaginings of historical icons, scientific ambition, and folklore. The novelist and playwright Daniel Kehlmann achieved widespread recognition with Measuring the World, an inventive historical novel depicting the contrasting lives and methods of mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt.
Born in Munich on January 13, 1975, Daniel Kehlmann is the son of television director Michael Kehlmann and actress Dagmar Mettler. He moved with his parents to Vienna at age six, growing up in the city's 23rd district and obtaining dual German and Austrian citizenship. Kehlmann published his early literary works while completing his studies, quickly building an international readership. His breakout novel, Measuring the World (2005), became one of the most commercially and critically successful post-war German novels and was translated into more than forty languages. He continued publishing acclaimed fiction including Me and Kaminski, Fame, F, and The Director. In 2017, he published Tyll, translated into English by Ross Benjamin, which reimagined the folklore trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War and was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize. Over his career, Kehlmann has been honored with major awards such as the Candide Prize, the Doderer Prize, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and the Thomas Mann Prize. He divides his time between Vienna, Berlin, and New York.
Kehlmann's prose is characterized by its blend of meticulous historical research, philosophical inquiries into truth, and dark, metafictional humor. His works frequently investigate the boundary between reality and fiction, the fallibility of memory, and the tragicomic limits of human reason. In works such as the 2016 psychological novella You Should Have Left, he utilizes elements of horror and spatial disorientation to trace a screenwriter's mental breakdown in an isolated mountain home. Across his historical novels and contemporary satires, his writing balances philosophical depth with accessible, swift narrative structure.
