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Measuring the World

Measuring the World( )
Author: Kehlmann, Daniel
Read by: Bower, Humphrey
Translator: Brown Janeway, Carol
ISBN:978-1-74201-156-1
Publication Date:Dec 2007
Publisher:Bolinda Publishing Pty, Limited
Imprint:Bolinda Audio
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:AUD $18.95
Book 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 Sskind'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...
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Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.2 x 23 x 2.6 cm
Book Weight:0.19 Kilograms
Author Biography
Kehlmann, Daniel (Author)


Daniel Kehlmann was born on January 13, 1975 in Munich. He is a German language author. His work Die Vermessung der Welt (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway as Measuring the World, 2006) is the best selling novel in the German language since Patrick Süskind's Perfume was released in 1985.

In 1997 Kehlmann completed his first novel, Beerholms Vorstellung, while still a student. He also wrote numerous reviews and essays while at university. In 2001, Kehlmann held the guest lectureship of poetics at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. In the winter term of 2005/6 Kehlmann held the lectureship of poetics at the FH Wiesbaden, and in 2006/7 he held the lectureship for poetics at the university of Göttingen. Daniel Kehlmann is a member of the Mainzer Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. In 2015 he made the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist with his title, F.

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