Measuring the World: A Novel. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Measuring the World: A Novel

At the end of the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world, as Prussian aristocrat Alexander von Humboldt embarks on an odyssey to some of the most remote, unexplored regions on the planet, and astronomer-mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss uses his mathematical skills to solve some of the greatest puzzles of his age. 17,500 first printing.

Daniel Kehlmann was born in 1975 in Munich, the son of a director and an actress. He attended a Jesuit college in Vienna, traveled widely, and has won several awards for previous novels and short stories, most recently the 2005 Candide Award. His works have been translated into more than twenty languages, and Measuring the World became an instant best seller in several European countries. Kehlmann is spending the fall of 2006 as writer-in-residence at New York University’s Deutsches Haus. He lives in Vienna.