Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes

Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes - Paperback

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Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes - Paperback

Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes - Paperback

by Daniel Kehlmann
$21.00
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by Daniel Kehlmann (Author)

From the award-winning author of The Director and Measuring the World, a wickedly funny novel about the cascading consequences of a case of mistaken identity

"A darkly comic masterpiece . . . rare and thrilling." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Kafka for the Facebook-famous generation." --Time Out New York

The borders between fame and facelessness, truth and deception, duplicates and originals are tested in a series of increasingly absurd episodes that underscore the interplay of fact and fiction in the illusion of identity.

No one is more surprised than Ebling when his new cell phone begins receiving calls meant for popular actor Ralf Tanner. At first he tries to set the callers right, but soon he is enjoying the drama and power that celebrity brings. Little does he know that his actions will cause a ripple effect that will leave very few lives untouched, from the movie star himself to those lingering at the edges of the limelight. And as paths cross and plots thicken, the boundaries of fiction and reality start to crumble.

Author Biography

Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages. Awards his work has received include the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Kehlmann divides his time between Vienna and Berlin.

Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.95 x 7.95 x 5.24 IN
Publication Date: November 01, 2011
ISBN9780307474247
Author Daniel Kehlmann
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages192
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975. His novels and plays have won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Doderer Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Welt Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. His novel Tyll was shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize, and Measuring the World has been translated into more than forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature. He currently lives in Berlin and New York.

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