Fame

A brilliant, witty tour de force, translated with great style.

One of the most consistently original novelists writing today.

'Ingenious'

'Riffs echo through this playful, perplexing landscape '

'Brilliant'

'A real beauty of a book'

'Kafkaesque'

'Extraordinary'

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.