Daniel Kehlmann FAME First Edition Signed

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Daniel Kehlmann FAME First Edition Signed

First UK edition, first print hardback of FAME (A Novel in Nine Episodes) by Daniel Kehlmann and published by Quercus, London in 2010. Translated by Carol Brown Janeway. Signed to a previous owner, located and dated by Kehlmann on the title page. Full numberline 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the copyright page.

The book is in near fine condition (black cloth boards with silver lettering to spine) with just a bit of light wear to the near fine dust jacket, which is not price clipped (very slight creasing to edges). Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no other inscriptions.

Imagine being famous. Being recognised on the street, adored by people who have never even met you, known the world over, wouldn't that be great?

But what if, one day, you got stuck in a country where no one spoke your language and you didn't speak theirs. Where no one knew your face and you had no way of contacting your home and family. How would your fame help you then?

What would happen if someone got hold of your mobile phone? If they spoke to your girlfriends, your agent, your director and started making decisions for you. And when no one believed that you were you anymore, when you saw a lookalike acting your roles for you, what would you do?

And when you realised your magnum opus, like everything else you'd ever written, was drivel, a total waste of time and energy for all concerned, how would you react? Would the thought of the seven million people you knew would buy it and devour every word bring you comfort? Or would your shame only increase?

In this delightfully entertaining joy of a book, Daniel Kehlmann throws his characters into all these situations with thrilling, funny and surprising results, showing once again that he is one of his generation's finest European writers.

175 pages

ISBN: 978 1 84916 376 7

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