Measuring the World - Hardcover

Kehlmann, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375424466 ISBN 13: 9780375424465

Publisher: Pantheon Books, 2006

Synopsis

At the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world, as Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt embarks on an odyssey to some of the most remote, unexplored regions on the planet, and astronomer-mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss uses his mathematical skills to solve some of the greatest puzzles of his age. 17,500 first printing.

About this title

Review:

international praise for the best-selling
"Measuring the World
"
"Kehlmann's books exude the provocative attraction of masters like Nabokov or Proust."
"-Stern"
"Daniel Kehlmann is a consummate storyteller, assured in tone, with a masterful control over the story line . . . Ravishing."
"-Der Spiegel"
"I haven't laughed so hard reading a new German novel in a long time . . . This young author plays his fiction game with great refinement and sparkling wit. The plot is strong and its dialogue totally hilarious."
"-Frankfurter Rundschau"
"An outstanding novel!"
"-De Telegraaf"
"Kehlmann is an amazing writer."
"-Vrij Nederland"
""Measuring the World" has proved to be nothing less than a literary sensation."
"-The Guardian"
"Brilliant."
"-Kirkus Reviews (starred)"
"Possibly this fall's "The Name of the Rose"."
"-The Philadelphia Inquirer (fall fiction preview)"

"From the Hardcover edition."

international praise for the best-selling
"Measuring the World
"
"Kehlmann's books exude the provocative attraction of masters like Nabokov or Proust."
"-Stern"
"Daniel Kehlmann is a consummate storyteller, assured in tone, with a masterful control over the story line . . . Ravishing."
"-Der Spiegel"
"I haven't laughed so hard reading a new German novel in a long time . . . This young author plays his fiction game with great refinement and sparkling wit. The plot is strong and its dialogue totally hilarious."
"-Frankfurter Rundschau"
"An outstanding novel!"
"-De Telegraaf"
"Kehlmann is an amazing writer."
"-Vrij Nederland"
""Measuring the World" has proved to be nothing less than a literary sensation."
"-The Guardian"
"Brilliant."
"-Kirkus Reviews (starred)"
"Possibly this fall's "The Name of the Rose,""
"-The Philadelphia Inquirer (fall fiction preview)"

"From the Hardcover edition."

"A masterfully realized, wonderfully entertaining and deeply satisfying novel. . . . Addictively readable and genuinely and deeply funny."--"Los Angeles Times""Kehlmann's lightly surreal style [is] a mixture of comedy, romance and the macabre, with flashes of magical realism that read like Borges in the Black Forest."""--"Washington Post Book World""Elegant and measured in design and expression. . . . What distinguishes Kehlmann are quickness of mind and lightness of touch." --"The New York Times Book Review"

"A masterfully realized, wonderfully entertaining and deeply satisfying novel. . . . Addictively readable and genuinely and deeply funny."
"Los Angeles Times
"
"Kehlmann's lightly surreal style [is] a mixture of comedy, romance and the macabre, with flashes of magical realism that read like Borges in the Black Forest.""
" "The Washington Post Book World
"
"Elegant and measured in design and expression. . . . What distinguishes Kehlmann are quickness ofpace and lightness of touch."
"The New York Times Book Review""

"A masterfully realized, wonderfully entertaining and deeply satisfying novel. . . . Addictively readable and genuinely and deeply funny."
--Los Angeles Times

"Kehlmann's lightly surreal style [is] a mixture of comedy, romance and the macabre, with flashes of magical realism that read like Borges in the Black Forest."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Elegant and measured in design and expression. . . . What distinguishes Kehlmann are quickness of pace and lightness of touch."
--The New York Times Book Review

From the Publisher:

Reviews for Measuring the World:

Measuring the World has proved nothing less than a literary sensation...
the novel has sold more than 600,000 copies in Germany, knocking J K
Rowling and Dan Brown off the bestseller lists... it is the most successful
German novel since Patrick Suskind's Perfume... 31-year-old Daniel Kehlmann
is a literary wunderkind already being compared to Nabokov and Proust -
Guardian

I felt so enlivened by reading this delightful novel, finishing the book
with such good cheer and hope... the sense of boundless possibility, the
excitement of discovery...optimism and hope...a wonderful novel instantly
clamouring to be made my top choice - Sue Baker, Publishing News

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0375424466
• ISBN 13: 9780375424465
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 259