Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world.
'A dazzling success.. Fantastically imagined' * Daily Telegraph *
'Pulsing with fictional energy ... Here for once is a popular hit as sophisticated as it is engaging' * Sunday Times *
'Nothing less than a literary sensation' * Guardian *
'This is a masterpiece' * Independent on Sunday *
'Kehlmann is one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today, and he manages all this while exploring matters of deep philosophical and intellectual import. He deserves to have more readers' * Jeffrey Eugenides *
'Pulsing with fictional energy ... Here for once is a popular hit as sophisticated as it is engaging' * Sunday Times *
'Nothing less than a literary sensation' * Guardian *
'This is a masterpiece' * Independent on Sunday *
'Kehlmann is one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today, and he manages all this while exploring matters of deep philosophical and intellectual import. He deserves to have more readers' * Jeffrey Eugenides *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9781847241146 |
| ISBN 10 | 184724114X |
| Title | Measuring the World |
| Author | Daniel Kehlmann |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2007-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2008 |
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