Afrika
From International Booker Prize Shortlistee
$29.75
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
20 April 2027
Summary
From ‘one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today’ comes a comic tale of casual barbarism, dangerous lunacy and accidental authority.
In the winter of 1884, the great colonial powers meet in Berlin. The order of the day: how to divide up the vast continent of Africa between them. For Legation Counsellor Strinetzky, though, a minor Austrian diplomat drafted in to the conference so his superior can spend the day practising for a piano recital, this …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529454048 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1529454042 |
| Author: | Daniel Kehlmann, Ross Benjamin |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
I have yet to read a novel that captures this fundamental truth about the makers of the modern world with such narrative brio, intellectual acuity and coruscating humour. Afrika looks set to be the classic novel about foreign policymaking, a worthy counterpart to Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop, the essential fiction about foreign journalism * Pankaj Mishra *
Daniel Kehlmann
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
- Tyll
He 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
- 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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