F: A Novel
Author(s): Daniel Kehlmann
**Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015** Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family - fakers, all of them - and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with them. Having achieved nothing in life, Arthur Friedland is tricked on stage by a hypnotist and told to change everything. After he abandons his three young sons, they grow up to be a faithless priest, a broke financier and a forger. Each of them cultivates absence. One will be lost to it. A novel about the game of fate and the fetters of family, F never stops questioning, exploring and teasing at every twist and turn of its Rubik's Cube-like narrative.
General Information
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- : Quercus Publishing
- : Quercus Publishing
- : 0.24
- : 01 May 2015
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 August 2015
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Daniel Kehlmann
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 272
More About The Product
Shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015.
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 forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature.
