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You should have left : a story / Daniel Kehlmann ; translated from the German by Ross Benjamin.

ISBN: 9781101871928
Physical Description: 114 pages ; 19 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, 2017.
Copyright: &copy;2017.

Kehlmann, Daniel, 1975- (author.). Benjamin, Ross, (translator.).

Summary:

"From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse. "It is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas, a new beginning. Fresh air." These are the opening lines of the journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann's spellbinding new novel: the record of the seven days that he, his wife, and his four-year-old daughter spend in a house they have rented in the mountains of Germany--a house that thwarts the expectations of his recollection and seems to defy the very laws of physics. The narrator is eager to finish a screenplay, entitled Marriage, for a sequel to the movie that launched his career, but something he cannot explain is undermining his convictions and confidence, a process he is recording in this account of the uncanny events that unfold as he tries to understand what, exactly, is happening around him--and in himself"--Provided by publisher.