Détails du livre
Format
Livre audio
Langue
Anglais
Publié
Dec 1, 2007
Éditeur
Bolinda Audio
ISBN-10
174201156X
ISBN-13
9781742011561
Description
More than 600,000 copies sold in Germany, knocking both J K Rowling and Dan Brown off the bestseller lists
The most successful German novel since Patrick Süskind's Perfume.
Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Daniel Kehlmann has produced a novel of rare charm and readability, distinguished by its sly humour and unforgettable characterisation.
"Measuring the World has proved nothing less than a literary sensation... 31-year-old Daniel Kehlmann is a literary wunderkind already being compared to Nabokov and Proust." - The Guardian.
"...he has it in him to be the great German novelist that the world had given up waiting for." - Sunday Telegraph
The most successful German novel since Patrick Süskind's Perfume.
Measuring the World recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment - the naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. Daniel Kehlmann has produced a novel of rare charm and readability, distinguished by its sly humour and unforgettable characterisation.
"Measuring the World has proved nothing less than a literary sensation... 31-year-old Daniel Kehlmann is a literary wunderkind already being compared to Nabokov and Proust." - The Guardian.
"...he has it in him to be the great German novelist that the world had given up waiting for." - Sunday Telegraph