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Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes by Daniel Kehlmann
55.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In the first of Fame's nine stories, the technician Ebling whose high point of the week is the Wiener Schnitzel on the office canteen menu, at last succumbs to the blandishments of the mobile phone and through an error is assigned the number of the actor Ralf Tanner. Soon he is taking Tanner's calls, ma ...Show more
Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann
28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
At the end of the eighteenth century, two brilliant and eccentric young scientists set out to measure the world. Alexander von Humboldt swashbuckled his way across the globe: navigating ocean and jungle, eating with cannibals, swimming with electric eels, lowering himself into volcanoes and scaling the ...Show more
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
37.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: very good
'A masterly achievement, a work of imaginative grandeur and complete artistic control' Ian McEwan 'Brilliant and unputdownable' Salman Rushdie He's a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and he's gone whe ...Show more
Tyll - A Novel by Daniel Kehlmann; Ross Benjamin (Translator)
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Daniel Kehlmann transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting work of magical realism, macabre humor, and rollicking adventure. Tyll is a scrawny boy growing up in a quiet village until his father, a miller with a forbidden interest in alche ...Show more
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