F - A Novel

'A comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a work of deeply satisfying (and never merely clever) complexity' - John Burnside 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. ..Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015..

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Kehlmann, Kehlmann Daniel
• Assisted by: Carol Brown Janeway (Translation), Carol Janeway (Translation)
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2015
• EAN: 9781784296230
• ISBN: 978-1-78429-623-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary