Daniel Kehlmann

• May-2025
• / Historical
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A Late Show with Stephen Colbert Book Club Pick “Nothing short of brilliant.” -- The Wall Street Journal From “a surpassingly gifted storyteller” (The New York Times), a visionary novel inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst, who f...

• Feb-2020
• / Literary
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From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Ulenspiegel: a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist’s decision never to die ...

• Jun-2017
• / Literary
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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." These are the opening lines of the journal kept by the narr...

• Sep-2014
• / Literary
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From the internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World, here is a dazzling tragicomedy about the three sons of a lost father. Arthur Friedland is a wannabe writer who one day takes his sons to a performance by the Great Lindemann, Master...

• Sep-2010
• / Literary
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Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn't that be great? But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing, where no one spoke yo...

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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From the internationally best-selling author Daniel Kehlmann, a provocative and wickedly funny novel about two unpredictable men -- one an artist and the other a journalist, who together embark on an unexpected adventure with uproarious results. ...

• Nov-2006
• / General Fiction
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Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mounta...