Measuring the World

Recreates the parallel but contrasting lives of two geniuses of the German Enlightenment, the naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss. The most successful German novel since Patrick Suskind's "Perfume", it's sold over 600,000 copies in Germany. There will be a major author tour and heavy promotion.

Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. He has published six novels: Measuring the World, Me & Kaminski, Fame, F, You Should Have Left and Tyll and has won numerous prizes, including the Candide Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Doderer Prize, The Kleist Prize, the WELT Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature.

'Pulsing with fictional energy ... Here for once is a popular hit as sophisticated as it is engaging' Sunday Times. 'This is a masterpiece' Independent on Sunday. 'A dazzling success ... Fantastically imagined' Daily Telegraph. 'Nothing less than a literary sensation' Guardian.