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Item Details
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F
A NOVEL |
| By: |
Daniel Kehlmann, Carol Brown Janeway (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1848667345 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781848667341 |
| Publisher: |
QUERCUS PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
23 October, 2014 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
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 the abyss. |
| Synopsis: |
'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** |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Quercus Publishing |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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