**From the internationally best-selling author of _Measuring the World_ and _F,_ an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse** _"It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air."_ These are the opening lines
You Should Have Left
β Scribed by Daniel Kehlmann
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 73 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse
"It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air."
These are the opening lines of the journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann's spellbinding new novel: the record of the seven days that he, his wife, and his four-year-old daughter spend in a house they have rented in the mountains of Germany--a house that thwarts the expectations of his recollection and seems to defy the very laws of physics. The narrator is eager to finish a screenplay, entitled Marriage, for a sequel to the movie that launched his career, but something he cannot explain is undermining his convictions and confidence, a process he is recording in this account of the uncanny events that unfold as he tries to understand what, exactly, is happening around...
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