{"product_id":"f-paperback","title":"F - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Kehlmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCarol Janeway\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the internationally acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eMeasuring the World\u003c\/i\u003e, here is a dazzling tragicomedy about the three sons of a lost father. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArthur Friedland is a wannabe writer who one day takes his sons to a performance by the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis. Arthur declares himself immune to hypnosis and a disbeliever in magic. But the Great Lindemann knows better, and after he extracts Arthur's deepest secrets and tells him to make them real, Arthur empties the family bank account and vanishes. He goes on to become a world-famous author, a master of the mystical. (F is for fake.) But what of his abandoned boys? The painfully shy Martin grows up to be a priest without a vocation. (F is for faith, and lack of it.) Eric becomes a financier on the brink of ruin (F is for fraud), while Ivan, hoping for glory as a painter, instead becomes a forger. (F is for forgery, too.) During the summer before the global financial crisis, they are thrown together again with cataclysmic results. Wildly funny and heartbreaking, Daniel Kehlmann's novel about truth, family, and the terrible power of fortune is a fictional triumph.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Kehlmann\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Berlin and New York. His works have won the Candide Prize, the Doderer Prize, the Kleist Prize, the \u003ci\u003eWelt\u003c\/i\u003e Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. His novel \u003ci\u003eMeasuring the World\u003c\/i\u003e was translated into more than forty languages and is one of the greatest successes in postwar German literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763210649888,"sku":"9780804171595","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/1169f1351bacd43ed940dcc4ed267bbc.webp?v=1780229850","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/f-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}