About the Author

Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. He has published six novels: Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski Fame, F and You Should Have Left and has 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.

Reviews

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. - Jonathan FranzenDaniel Kehlmann is one of the great novelists for making giant themes seem light - Adam ThirlwellAn astonishing book, a work of deeply satisfying (and never merely clever) complexity . . . A bona-fide masterpiece - Times Literary Supplement, on FKehlmann's world is fully convincing while being philosophically challenging. He has a hypnotic effect, seducing us with his storytelling while provoking us to find meanings of our own - Saturday Telegraph, on FThis most accomplished, humane and unsettling of novels - Literary Review, on FWhat a strange and beautiful novel, hovering on the misty borders of the abstract and the real. - Ian McEwan, on F