Book: F
The new wunderkind of literary fiction, German Daniel Kehlmann’s fourth novel, tackles three weighty subjects — religion, economics and finance, as seen through the eyes of three brothers. But all three are fakes. Like three novellas in one, Kehlmann unpacks each man’s anguish in careful and disquieting detail.
The opening chapter is told in the third person but focuses on the boys’ father Arthur Friedland, who takes them to see hypnotist, The Great Lindemann. He’s pulled up on stage to take part and after a frank exchange with the hypnotist, he drives the boys home and out of their lives.
