'A comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a work of deeply satisfying (and never merely clever) complexity' - John Burnside
Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family - fakers, all of them - and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with them.
Having achieved nothing in life, Arthur Friedland is tricked on stage by a hypnotist and told to change everything. After he abandons his three young sons, they grow up to be a faithless priest, a broke financier and a forger. Each of them cultivates absence. One will be lost to it.
A novel about the game of fate and the fetters of family, F never stops questioning, exploring and teasing at every twist and turn of its Rubik's Cube-like narrative.
**Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015**
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family - fakers, all of them - and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with them. Having achieved nothing in life, Arthur Friedland is tricked on stage by a hypnotist and told to change everything. After he abandons his three young sons, they grow up to be a faithless priest, a broke financier and a forger. Each of them cultivates absence. One will be lost to it.A novel about the game of fate and the fetters of family, F never stops questioning, exploring and teasing at every twist and turn of its Rubik's Cube-like narrative. Highly-praised new novel from the bestselling Austrian author of Measuring the World, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781784296230
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Book Description Condition: New. Highly-praised new novel from the bestselling Austrian author of Measuring the World, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 Translator(s): Janeway, Carol Brown. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 252. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781784296230
Book Description Condition: New. Highly-praised new novel from the bestselling Austrian author of Measuring the World, shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015 Translator(s): Janeway, Carol Brown. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 252. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781784296230