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The Director

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK • A LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT BOOK CLUB PICK**“Nothing short of brilliant.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom “a surpassingly gifted storyteller” (The New York Times), a visionary novel inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst,... ... Read more

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK • A LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT BOOK CLUB PICK**“Nothing short of brilliant.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom “a surpassingly gifted storyteller” (The New York Times), a visionary novel inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst,...
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You Should Have Left

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Director, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse“Mind-bending. . . . Part horror, part science fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review"This is a story about a marriage in trouble, and about a seemingly impossible desire to protect a young child . . . but also about something else, something ... Read more

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Director, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse“Mind-bending. . . . Part horror, part science fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review"This is a story about a marriage in trouble, and about a seemingly impossible desire to protect a young child . . . but also about something else, something
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Tyll

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by Daniel Kehlmann ...

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The New York Times BEST HISTORICAL FICTION OF THE YEAR**The Guardian's BEST FICTION OF THE YEARThrillist's BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARDaniel Kehlmann, author of The Director, transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure.Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a qui... ... Read more

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The New York Times BEST HISTORICAL FICTION OF THE YEAR**The Guardian's BEST FICTION OF THE YEARThrillist's BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARDaniel Kehlmann, author of The Director, transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure.Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a qui...
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Afrika

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From “one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today” (Jeffrey Eugenides) comes a comic tale of casual barbarism, dangerous lunacy, and accidental authority.In the winter of 1884, the great colonial powers meet in Berlin. The order of the day: how to divide up the vast continent of Africa between them. For Legation Counsellor Strinetzky though, a minor Austrian diplomat drafted ... Read more

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From “one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today” (Jeffrey Eugenides) comes a comic tale of casual barbarism, dangerous lunacy, and accidental authority.In the winter of 1884, the great colonial powers meet in Berlin. The order of the day: how to divide up the vast continent of Africa between them. For Legation Counsellor Strinetzky though, a minor Austrian diplomat drafted
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Measuring the World

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The brilliant debut novel by the author of The Director portrays the comic collision of two radically different Enlightenment geniuses--one who explored the world in person, and the other who pushed the boundaries of the universe in his own head.**"Kehlmann's lightly surreal style [is] a mixture of comedy, romance, and the macabre, with flashes of magical realism that read like Borges in the Black ... Read more

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The brilliant debut novel by the author of The Director portrays the comic collision of two radically different Enlightenment geniuses--one who explored the world in person, and the other who pushed the boundaries of the universe in his own head.**"Kehlmann's lightly surreal style [is] a mixture of comedy, romance, and the macabre, with flashes of magical realism that read like Borges in the Black
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F

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by Daniel Kehlmann ...

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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 ... Read more

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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
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Afrika

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From “one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today” (Jeffrey Eugenides) comes a comic tale of casual barbarism, dangerous lunacy, and accidental authority.In the winter of 1884, the great colonial powers meet in Berlin. The order of the day: how to divide up the vast continent of Africa between them. For Legation Counsellor Strinetzky though, a minor Austrian diplomat drafted ... Read more

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From “one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today” (Jeffrey Eugenides) comes a comic tale of casual barbarism, dangerous lunacy, and accidental authority.In the winter of 1884, the great colonial powers meet in Berlin. The order of the day: how to divide up the vast continent of Africa between them. For Legation Counsellor Strinetzky though, a minor Austrian diplomat drafted
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Fame

A Novel in Nine Episodes

by Daniel Kehlmann ...

Translated by Carol Janeway ...

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 your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How would your fame help ... Read more

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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 your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How would your fame help
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Christmas Eve

by Daniel Kehlmann ...

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It's Christmas Eve, 2017. A philosophy professor is on her way to celebrate with her family when she is hauled out of a taxi and bundled into an interrogation room. Opposite her, the senior officer is cynical, smart and relentless. Incriminating evidence has been found against her. Or has it? Is a terrorist attack imminent or is this a case of state paranoia? The clock ticks.Played out in real ... Read more

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It's Christmas Eve, 2017. A philosophy professor is on her way to celebrate with her family when she is hauled out of a taxi and bundled into an interrogation room. Opposite her, the senior officer is cynical, smart and relentless. Incriminating evidence has been found against her. Or has it? Is a terrorist attack imminent or is this a case of state paranoia? The clock ticks.Played out in real
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The Director

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A 2026 Audie Award Winner for Literary Fiction and ClassicsSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK • A LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT BOOK CLUB PICK**“Nothing short of brilliant.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom “a surpassingly gifted storyteller” (The New Y... ... Read more

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A 2026 Audie Award Winner for Literary Fiction and ClassicsSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK • A LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT BOOK CLUB PICK**“Nothing short of brilliant.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom “a surpassingly gifted storyteller” (The New Y...
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Fame

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by Daniel Kehlmann ...

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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 your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How would your fame help ... Read more

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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 your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How would your fame help
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Me and Kaminski

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by Daniel Kehlmann ...

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Director and Measuring the World--a hilariously shrewd send-up of artistic and journalistic pretensions, told with Nabokovian wit and edgy intelligence“A gleeful massacre of media presumptions and art-world pretensions.” –The Independent (London)“A piercing look into the art world. . . . A critique of celebrity, of fame and of the ugliness of self ... Read more

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From the internationally acclaimed author of The Director and Measuring the World--a hilariously shrewd send-up of artistic and journalistic pretensions, told with Nabokovian wit and edgy intelligence“A gleeful massacre of media presumptions and art-world pretensions.” –The Independent (London)“A piercing look into the art world. . . . A critique of celebrity, of fame and of the ugliness of self
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