![]() Wildly funny, heartbreaking, tragic, Daniel Kehlmanns novel about truth. ![]() His sons grow into men who manifest their inexplicable loss - Martin becomes a priest who does not believe in God Ivan, a painter in constant artistic crisis Eric, a businessman given to hallucinations and a fear of ghosts - even as they struggle to understand their father's disappearance and make their own places in the world. Eric becomes a financier (F is for fraud), losing touch with reality as he. ![]() In time, still absent from his family, he beings to publish novels and becomes an internationally renowned author. (.) Somewhat facile in its wrong-number and coincidental-meeting connectivity, Fame is half empty, half full.' - Tom LeClair, Bookforum. Later that night, while his family sleeps, he takes his passport, empties all the money from his bank account, and vanishes. From the Reviews: ' Fame is a Nabokovian puzzle, a game of hide-and-seek, and a playful reflection on cultural renown and the lack thereof. Protesting that he doesn't believe in magic even as he is led onto the stage, Arthur nevertheless experiences something. One day Arthur Friedland piles his three sons into the car and drives them to see the Great Lindemann, Master of Hypnosis. From the young, internationally acclaimed author of Measuring the World comes a stunning, tragicomic novel about three brothers, their relationship to their distant father, and their individual fates and struggles in the modern world. ![]()
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