F: A Novel

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The Friedland brothers have nothing in common. Martin is a priest with no faith. Ivan is an artist with no integrity. Eric is a financier - now, with no money. Each, in their own way, a fake. Each about to step into the abyss. With the playfulness of Calvino and the subversive thrill of David Lynch, F is a dazzling new novel from a literary wunderkind.

Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. His works include MEASURING THE WORLD, ME & KAMINSKI and FAME, and have 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 40 languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature.

With the wizardry of a puzzle master Daniel Kehlmann permutes the narrative pieces of this Rubik's Cube of a story - involving a lost father and his three sons - into a solution that clicks into position with a deep thrill of narrative and emotional satisfaction. 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 - Jeffrey Eugenides An intricate, beautiful novel in multiple disguises: a family saga, a fable, and a high-speed farce. But then, what else would you expect? Daniel Kehlmann is one of the great novelists for making giant themes seem light. - Adam Thirlwell A real beauty of a book - Jonathan Franzen A literary wunderkind already being compared to Nabokov and Proust - Guardian