Fame
A Novel in Nine Episodes
Published on 1. September 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-84916-378-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 girlfriends, your agent, your director and started making decisions for you. And when no one believed that you were you any more, when you saw a lookalike acting your roles for you, what would you do?
In this delightfully entertaining book, Daniel Kehlmann throws his characters into situations that are thrilling, funny, surprising and tragic, confirming his place as one of his generation's finest writers.
'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 girlfriends, your agent, your director and started making decisions for you. And when no one believed that you were you any more, when you saw a lookalike acting your roles for you, what would you do?
In this delightfully entertaining book, Daniel Kehlmann throws his characters into situations that are thrilling, funny, surprising and tragic, confirming his place as one of his generation's finest writers.
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quercus Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
150 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84916-378-1 (9781849163781)
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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.