F, English edition
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
From the young, internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World: a stunning tragicomic novel about three brothers, their relationship to their distant father, and their individual fates and struggles in the modern world.
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From the young, internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World: a stunning tragicomic novel about three brothers, their relationship to their distant father, and their individual fates and struggles in the modern world.
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F is for family. F is for fortune. F is for fraud. F is for fate.From the internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World, here is a dazzling tragicomedy about three brothers whose father takes on the occult and both wins and loses.
Arthur is a dilettante, a wannabe writer who decides to fill an afternoon by taking his three young sons to a performance by the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis. While allowing one of them to be called onto the stage and made a spectacle of, Arthur declares himself to be immune to hypnosis and a disbeliever in all magic. But the Great Lindemann knows better. He gets Arthur to tell him his deepest secrets and then tells him to make them real. That night, Arthur empties the family bank account, takes his passport, and vanishes. He's going to become a world-famous author, a master of the mystical. (F is for fake.)
But what of the boys? Martin, painfully shy, grows up to be a Catholic priest without a vocation. (F is for faith, and lack ofit.) Eric becomes a financier (F is for fraud), losing touch with reality as he faces ruin, while Ivan, destined for glory as a painter, instead becomes a forger. (F is for forgery, too.) They've settled into their life choices, but when the summer of the global financial crisis dawns they're thrown together again with cataclysmic results.
Wildly funny, heartbreaking, tragic, Daniel Kehlmann's novel about truth, family, and the terrible power of fortune is a fictional triumph.
Autoren-Porträt von Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann, wurde 1975 als Sohn des Regisseurs Michael Kehlmann und der Schauspielerin Dagmar Mettler in München geboren. 1981 kam er mit seiner Familie nach Wien, wo er das Kollegium Kalksburg, eine Jesuitenschule, besuchte und danach an der Universität Wien Philosophie und Germanistik studierte. Er hatte Poetikdozenturen in Mainz, Wiesbaden und Göttingen inne und wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen, darunter dem Candide-Preis, dem Preis der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, dem Doderer-Preis, dem Kleist-Preis 2006, dem WELT-Literaturpreis 2007 sowie zuletzt mit dem Thomas-Mann-Preis ausgezeichnet. Daniel Kehlmann lebt als freier Schriftsteller in Wien und Berlin.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Daniel Kehlmann
- 2014, 272 Seiten, Maße: 16,2 x 19,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Übersetzung: Janeway, Carol
- Übersetzer: Carol Janeway
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0307911810
- ISBN-13: 9780307911810
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.08.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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