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A novel of sheer brilliance and stylistic mastery from the bestselling author of Measuring the World

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.

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 their abyss. From the bestselling author of "Measuring The World".

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Imagine being famous. Wouldn't that be great? But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where no one spoke your language. Where no one knew your face and you had no way of contacting home. How would your fame help you then? What would happen if someone got hold of your mobile phone? If they spoke to your girlfriends, your agent, your director and started making decisions for you? In this delightfully entertaining book, Daniel Kehlmann t...

Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann's brilliant comic novel revolves around the meeting of two colossal geniuses of the Enlightenment. Late in the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the aristocratic naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, negotiates jungles, voyages down the Orinoco River, tastes poisons, climbs ...

Sebastian Zöllner, an underachieving art critic, has pinned his hopes of advancement on writing the biography of the artist Manuel Kaminski, a forgotten former pupil of Matisse, now an ailing recluse. Inept, charmless, and with scant knowledge of art history, Zöllner is hardly the man to rediscover a lost genius of 20th-century painting. But he has made one crucial discovery about his subject: that Kaminski's long-lost love, Therese, is still ...