'F is an intricate, beautiful novel in multiple disguises: a family saga, a fable, and a high-speedįarce. He has a hypnotic effect, seducing us with his storytelling while provoking us to find meanings of our own - Saturday Telegraph Kehlmann's world is fully convincing while being philosophically challenging. Powering the narrative is the explosive fallout from the collision between fate and self-determination. Intelligent, acerbic and quietly surreal.

What a strange and beautiful novel, hovering on the misty borders of the abstract and the real. It is this sense of a world potent with significance that seems at once within our reach and beyond our grasp that forms the central concern of this most accomplished, humane and unsettling of novels - a work that registers how it is to feel so alive to the 'terrible beauty of things' as to feel the world is talking to us - Literary Review Kehlmann is one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today, and he manages all this while exploring matters of deep philosophical and intellectual import - Jeffrey Eugenides It is a novel of deep beauty, psychological insight and, finally, compassion a book that, in a world of fakes and manufactured objects of desire, is the real article: a bona fide, inimitable masterpiece - Times Literary Supplement 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.

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