You should have left Daniel Kehlmann. Translated from the German by Ross Benjamin
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: London Riverrun 2017Description: 111 SeitenContent type:- Text
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- 9781786484048
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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single unit book | HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – Basement – Library Hallway | R (Reference collection) | R:PT2671.E32 D813 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Hardcover | 2023-7842 |
"From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse. "It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air." These are the opening lines of the journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann's spellbinding new novel: the record of the seven days that he, his wife, and his four-year-old daughter spend in a house they have rented in the mountains of Germany--a house that thwarts the expectations of his recollection and seems to defy the very laws of physics. The narrator is eager to finish a screenplay, entitled Marriage, for a sequel to the movie that launched his career, but something he cannot explain is undermining his convictions and confidence, a process he is recording in this account of the uncanny events that unfold as he tries to understand what, exactly, is happening around him--and in himself"--
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