F, English edition
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Friedland brothers have nothing in common. Martin is a priest with no faith. Ivan is an artist with no integrity.
Eric is a financier - now, with no money. Each, in their own way, a fake. Each about to step into the abyss.
Martin, painfully shy, grows...
Eric is a financier - now, with no money. Each, in their own way, a fake. Each about to step into the abyss.
Martin, painfully shy, grows...
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The Friedland brothers have nothing in common. Martin is a priest with no faith. Ivan is an artist with no integrity.
Eric is a financier - now, with no money. Each, in their own way, a fake. Each about to step into the abyss.
Martin, painfully shy, grows up to be a Catholic priest without a vocation. (F is for faith, and lack of it.) Eric becomes a financier (F is for fraud), losing touch with reality as he faces ruin, while Ivan, destined for glory as a painter, instead becomes a forger. (F is for forgery, too.) They've settled into their life choices, but when the summer of the global financial crisis dawns they're thrown together again with cataclysmic results.
Wildly funny, heartbreaking, tragic, Daniel Kehlmann's novel about truth, family, and the terrible power of fortune is a fictional triumph.
Eric is a financier - now, with no money. Each, in their own way, a fake. Each about to step into the abyss.
Martin, painfully shy, grows up to be a Catholic priest without a vocation. (F is for faith, and lack of it.) Eric becomes a financier (F is for fraud), losing touch with reality as he faces ruin, while Ivan, destined for glory as a painter, instead becomes a forger. (F is for forgery, too.) They've settled into their life choices, but when the summer of the global financial crisis dawns they're thrown together again with cataclysmic results.
Wildly funny, heartbreaking, tragic, Daniel Kehlmann's novel about truth, family, and the terrible power of fortune is a fictional triumph.
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'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 BurnsideArtful 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
Autoren-Porträt von Daniel Kehlmann
Kehlmann, DanielDaniel 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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Daniel Kehlmann
- 2015, 272 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Carol Brown Janeway
- Verlag: Quercus
- ISBN-10: 1784296236
- ISBN-13: 9781784296230
- Erscheinungsdatum: 21.05.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
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