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By Daniel Kehlmann

F Contemporary literature

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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 Burnside Artful 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**
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2015-05-21
Publication Date:
2015-05-21
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1784296236
ISBN13:
9781784296230
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
256 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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