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Measuring the World
Tom LeClaire in The New York Times with a nice review of the novel that knocked Harry Potter and Dan Brown off the number 1 spot in Germany:
What a wonderful country Germany must be. “Measuring the World,” which resembles nothing more American than a pint-size novel by Thomas Pynchon, displaced J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown from the top of the German best-seller lists. Like the young Pynchon and the novel’s subjects — the early 19th-century German scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Gauss — Daniel Kehlmann is something of a prodigy. At 31, he has written a collection of essays and five other books of fiction. “Measuring the World” is his first work to be translated into English. . . .
There are younger American novelists whom Kehlmann resembles: Neal Stephenson in his “Baroque Cycle” of historical fictions, Richard Powers in his several novels about scientists. What distinguishes Kehlmann are quickness of pace and lightness of touch.
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The Box Man by Kobo Abe (1973, English 1974)
Head in Flames by Lance Olsen (2009)
Agaat by Marlene van Niekerk (2006, English 2010)
The Weather Fifteen Years Ago by Wolf Haas (2006, English 2009)
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