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The Director

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK • A LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT BOOK CLUB PICK**“Nothing short of brilliant.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom “a surpassingly gifted storyteller” (The New York Times), a visionary novel inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst,... ... Read more

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK • A LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT BOOK CLUB PICK**“Nothing short of brilliant.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom “a surpassingly gifted storyteller” (The New York Times), a visionary novel inspired by the life of film director G.W. Pabst,...
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You Should Have Left

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by Daniel Kehlmann ...

Translated by Ross Benjamin ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Director, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse“Mind-bending. . . . Part horror, part science fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review"This is a story about a marriage in trouble, and about a seemingly impossible desire to protect a young child . . . but also about something else, something ... Read more

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Director, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse“Mind-bending. . . . Part horror, part science fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review"This is a story about a marriage in trouble, and about a seemingly impossible desire to protect a young child . . . but also about something else, something
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Tyll

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by Daniel Kehlmann ...

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The New York Times BEST HISTORICAL FICTION OF THE YEAR**The Guardian's BEST FICTION OF THE YEARThrillist's BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARDaniel Kehlmann, author of The Director, transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure.Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a qui... ... Read more

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The New York Times BEST HISTORICAL FICTION OF THE YEAR**The Guardian's BEST FICTION OF THE YEARThrillist's BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARDaniel Kehlmann, author of The Director, transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure.Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a qui...
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Measuring the World

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The brilliant debut novel by the author of The Director portrays the comic collision of two radically different Enlightenment geniuses--one who explored the world in person, and the other who pushed the boundaries of the universe in his own head.**"Kehlmann's lightly surreal style [is] a mixture of comedy, romance, and the macabre, with flashes of magical realism that read like Borges in the Black ... Read more

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The brilliant debut novel by the author of The Director portrays the comic collision of two radically different Enlightenment geniuses--one who explored the world in person, and the other who pushed the boundaries of the universe in his own head.**"Kehlmann's lightly surreal style [is] a mixture of comedy, romance, and the macabre, with flashes of magical realism that read like Borges in the Black
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A 2026 Audie Award Winner for Literary Fiction and ClassicsSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK • A LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT BOOK CLUB PICK**“Nothing short of brilliant.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom “a surpassingly gifted storyteller” (The New Y... ... Read more

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A 2026 Audie Award Winner for Literary Fiction and ClassicsSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NYPL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK • A LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT BOOK CLUB PICK**“Nothing short of brilliant.” —The Wall Street JournalFrom “a surpassingly gifted storyteller” (The New Y...
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Fame

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by Daniel Kehlmann ...

Translated by Carol Janeway ...

Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be great?But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing, where no one spoke your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How would your fame help ... Read more

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Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be great?But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing, where no one spoke your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How would your fame help
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Fame

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Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be great?But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing, where no one spoke your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How would your fame help ... Read more

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Imagine being famous. Being recognized on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over. Wouldn’t that be great?But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where celebrity means nothing, where no one spoke your language and you didn’t speak theirs, where no one knew your face (no book jackets, no TV) and you had no way of calling home? How would your fame help
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Christmas Eve

by Daniel Kehlmann ...

Translated by Christopher Hampton ...

It's Christmas Eve, 2017. A philosophy professor is on her way to celebrate with her family when she is hauled out of a taxi and bundled into an interrogation room. Opposite her, the senior officer is cynical, smart and relentless. Incriminating evidence has been found against her. Or has it? Is a terrorist attack imminent or is this a case of state paranoia? The clock ticks.Played out in real ... Read more

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It's Christmas Eve, 2017. A philosophy professor is on her way to celebrate with her family when she is hauled out of a taxi and bundled into an interrogation room. Opposite her, the senior officer is cynical, smart and relentless. Incriminating evidence has been found against her. Or has it? Is a terrorist attack imminent or is this a case of state paranoia? The clock ticks.Played out in real
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Measuring the World

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by Daniel Kehlmann ...

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The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment.Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to ... Read more

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The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the lives of two geniuses of the Enlightenment.Toward the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Hum-boldt, negotiates savanna and jungle, travels down the Orinoco, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to
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F

A Novel

by Daniel Kehlmann ...

Translated by Carol Janeway ...

F is for family. F is for fortune. F is for fraud. F is for fate.From the internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World, here is a dazzling tragicomedy about three brothers whose father takes on the occult and both wins and loses.Arthur is a dilettante, a wannabe writer who decides to fill an afternoon by taking his three young sons to a performance by the Great Lindemann, Master of ... Read more

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F is for family. F is for fortune. F is for fraud. F is for fate.From the internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World, here is a dazzling tragicomedy about three brothers whose father takes on the occult and both wins and loses.Arthur is a dilettante, a wannabe writer who decides to fill an afternoon by taking his three young sons to a performance by the Great Lindemann, Master of
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Me and Kaminski

A Novel

by Daniel Kehlmann ...

From the internationally acclaimed author of The Director and Measuring the World--a hilariously shrewd send-up of artistic and journalistic pretensions, told with Nabokovian wit and edgy intelligence“A gleeful massacre of media presumptions and art-world pretensions.” –The Independent (London)“A piercing look into the art world. . . . A critique of celebrity, of fame and of the ugliness of self ... Read more

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From the internationally acclaimed author of The Director and Measuring the World--a hilariously shrewd send-up of artistic and journalistic pretensions, told with Nabokovian wit and edgy intelligence“A gleeful massacre of media presumptions and art-world pretensions.” –The Independent (London)“A piercing look into the art world. . . . A critique of celebrity, of fame and of the ugliness of self
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Tyll

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by Daniel Kehlmann ...

Narrated by Firdous Bamji ...

Unabridged

11 hours 57 min

From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Ulenspiegel: a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist’s decision never to dieDaniel Kehlmann masterfully weaves the fates of many historical figures into this enchanting work of magical realism and adventure. This account of the ... Read more

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From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Ulenspiegel: a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist’s decision never to dieDaniel Kehlmann masterfully weaves the fates of many historical figures into this enchanting work of magical realism and adventure. This account of the
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