Fame
A Novel in Nine Episodes
$24.36
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2011
Summary
Imagine 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 girl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849163781 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1849163782 |
| Author: | Daniel Kehlmann, Carol Brown Janeway |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 161g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
‘Riffs echo through this playful, perplexing landscape’ Times.
One 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 *
About The Author
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 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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