{"product_id":"the-director-daniel-kehlmann-9781529435153","title":"The Director (Daniel Kehlmann)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew Statesman \u003c\/i\u003eFiction Book of the Year 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eTranslated Book of the Year 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year 2025\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Supple, horrifying and mordantly droll' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Nothing short of brilliant' \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A subtle, often darkly funny novel about the relationship between art and power' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A dazzling performance and a real page turner' Salman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom 'one of the brightest, most pleasure-giving writers at work today' (Jeffrey Eugenides), a visionary tale inspired by the life of the 20th century film director G.W. Pabst, who left Europe for Hollywood to resist the Nazis and then returned to his homeland with his wife and young son and began making films for the German Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn artist's life, a pact with the devil, a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eG.W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France, to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, who he made famous, can help him. And thus, almost through no fault of his own, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. The returning family is confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime. But Goebbels, the minister of propaganda in Berlin, wants the film genius, he won't take no for an answer and makes big promises. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Kehlmann's novel about art and power, beauty and barbarism is a triumph. \u003ci\u003eThe Director \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eshows what literature is capable of.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eDaniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Vienna, Berlin and New York. He has published six novels: \u003ci\u003eMeasuring the World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMe \u0026amp; Kaminski,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eFame\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eF,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYou Should Have Left \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTyll \u003c\/i\u003eand 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. \u003ci\u003eMeasuring the World\u003c\/i\u003e was translated into more than forty languages and is one of the biggest successes in post-war German literature.\nRoss Benjamin is a prizewinning translator and writes literary criticism for The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. He was a Fulbright Scholar and a Guggenheim Fellow and graduated from Vassar college. He lives in New York.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Print PDF, Englisch, 352 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65915995586909,"sku":"K010618082","price":11.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1061808200001A.jpg?v=1789375833","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-director-daniel-kehlmann-9781529435153","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}