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One of the most notable European writers at work today, younger or otherwise, Daniel Kehlmann makes this welcome first Elliott Bay visit. Dividing his time between Vienna and Berlin, he is most known for his novel, Measuring the World, which was translated into more than forty languages. Recipient of numerous awards, including the Candide Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and more, he is here with the newly translated Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes (Pantheon, translated by Carol Janeway). "[A] brilliant study of the fragility and interconnectedness of life ... Layers of connection, irony, despair, and humor distinguish this masterful work." - Publishers Weekly. "Who would have thought contemporary Central European literature could be so fun and so funny? Daniel Kehlmann is who. The young Austrian prodigy, famous everywhere but in the United States, has given us a real beauty of a book, farcical, satiric, melancholic, and humane. Modern fame may have been invented in America, but nobody has dramatized its paradoxes and heartbreaks more entertainingly than the European Kehlmann does here." - Jonathan Franzen.
