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At the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world, as Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt embarks on an odyssey to some of the most remote, unexplored regions on the planet, and astronomer-mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss uses his mathematical skills to solve some of the greatest puzzles of his age. 17,500 first printing.
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Measuring the World
“Kehlmann’s books exude the provocative attraction of masters like Nabokov or Proust.”
–Stern
“Daniel Kehlmann is a consummate storyteller, assured in tone, with a masterful control over the story line . . . Ravishing.”
–Der Spiegel
“I haven’t laughed so hard reading a new German novel in a long time . . . This young author plays his fiction game with great refinement and sparkling wit. The plot is strong and its dialogue totally hilarious.”
–Frankfurter Rundschau
“An outstanding novel!”
–De Telegraaf
“Kehlmann is an amazing writer.”
–Vrij Nederland
“Measuring the World has proved to be nothing less than a literary sensation.”
–The Guardian
“Brilliant.”
–Kirkus Reviews (starred)
“Possibly this fall’s The Name of the Rose.”
–The Philadelphia Inquirer (fall fiction preview)
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Measuring the World
“Kehlmann’s books exude the provocative attraction of masters like Nabokov or Proust.”
–Stern
“Daniel Kehlmann is a consummate storyteller, assured in tone, with a masterful control over the story line . . . Ravishing.”
–Der Spiegel
“I haven’t laughed so hard reading a new German novel in a long time . . . This young author plays his fiction game with great refinement and sparkling wit. The plot is strong and its dialogue totally hilarious.”
–Frankfurter Rundschau
“An outstanding novel!”
–De Telegraaf
“Kehlmann is an amazing writer.”
–Vrij Nederland
“Measuring the World has proved to be nothing less than a literary sensation.”
–The Guardian
“Brilliant.”
–Kirkus Reviews (starred)
“Possibly this fall’s The Name of the Rose.”
–The Philadelphia Inquirer (fall fiction preview)
Daniel Kehlmann was born in 1975 in Munich, the son of a director and an actress. He attended a Jesuit college in Vienna, traveled widely, and has won several awards for previous novels and short stories, most recently the 2005 Candide Award. His works have been translated into more than twenty languages, and Measuring the World became an instant best seller in several European countries. Kehlmann is spending the fall of 2006 as writer-in-residence at New York University’s Deutsches Haus. He lives in Vienna.
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- EditorePantheon Books
- Data di pubblicazione2006
- ISBN 10 0375424466
- ISBN 13 9780375424465
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine259
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