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Fame a novel in nine episodes

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New York Vintage Books 2011Edition: 1st Vintage Books edDescription: 175 p. 21 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen
Carrier type:
  • Band
ISBN:
  • 9780307474247
  • 0307474240
Contained works:
  • Kehlmann, Daniel Ruhm engl
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • PT2671.E32
Summary: A man buys a mobile phone and starts receiving calls intended for someone else. After some initial hesitation, he begins to play with his new identity. From one day to the next, an actor's phone falls dead silent, as though someone had stolen his life. A writer takes a pair of trips with a woman whose worst fear is to end up in one of his works. A somewhat confused Internet blogger wants nothing more than to become a character in a novel. A detective-story writer goes missing while on a journey through Central Asia, a fictional old woman on her deathbed quarrels with the writer who created her, and a managing director at a mobile phone company goes crazy trying to manage his double life with two women.
List(s) this item appears in: New arrivals 2023
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
single unit book single unit book HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – Basement – Library Hallway R (Reference collection) R:PT2671.E32 R8413 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Paperback 2023-7846

Voices -- In danger -- Rosalie goes off to die -- The way out -- The East -- Replying to the abbess -- A contribution to the debate -- How I lied and died -- In danger.

A man buys a mobile phone and starts receiving calls intended for someone else. After some initial hesitation, he begins to play with his new identity. From one day to the next, an actor's phone falls dead silent, as though someone had stolen his life. A writer takes a pair of trips with a woman whose worst fear is to end up in one of his works. A somewhat confused Internet blogger wants nothing more than to become a character in a novel. A detective-story writer goes missing while on a journey through Central Asia, a fictional old woman on her deathbed quarrels with the writer who created her, and a managing director at a mobile phone company goes crazy trying to manage his double life with two women.

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