Fame Paperback by Daniel Kehlmann Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (2011-11-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 192 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780307474247
• Item Weight: 203.84 grams
• Dimensions: 20.19 x 13.08 x 1.27 cm

From the award-winning author of The Director and Measuring the World, a wickedly funny novel about the cascading consequences of a case of mistaken identity

“A darkly comic masterpiece . . . rare and thrilling.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Kafka for the Facebook-famous generation.” —Time Out New York

The borders between fame and facelessness, truth and deception, duplicates and originals are tested in a series of increasingly absurd episodes that underscore the interplay of fact and fiction in the illusion of identity.

No one is more surprised than Ebling when his new cell phone begins receiving calls meant for popular actor Ralf Tanner. At first he tries to set the callers right, but soon he is enjoying the drama and power that celebrity brings. Little does he know that his actions will cause a ripple effect that will leave very few lives untouched, from the movie star himself to those lingering at the edges of the limelight. And as paths cross and plots thicken, the boundaries of fiction and reality start to crumble.

About the Author

Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages. Awards his work has received include the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Heimito von Doderer Literature Award, the Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Kehlmann divides his time between Vienna and Berlin.