Measuring the World

Zusatztext '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. He deserves to have more readers' Informationen zum Autor 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, You Should Have Left and Tyll 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. Klappentext Recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment, the naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. The most successful German novel since Patrick Suskind's "Perfume", it's sold over 600,000 copies in Germany. There will be a major author tour and heavy promotion. At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. Zusammenfassung At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Kehlmann, Kehlmann Daniel
• Assisted by: Carol Brown Janeway (Translation)
• Publisher: Riverrun
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.10.2007
• EAN: 9781847241146
• ISBN: 978-1-84724-114-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 199 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Quercus Paperbacks; Quercus Paperbacks; Riverrun
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation