You Should Have Left (Paperback)

Daniel Kehlmann

ISBN 10: 0525432914 / ISBN 13: 9780525432913

Published by Random House USA Inc, New York, 2018

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Paperback. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE From the internationally bestselling author of The Director, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapseMind-bending. . . . Part horror, part science fiction. The New York Times Book Review"This is a story about a marriage in trouble, and about a seemingly impossible desire to protect a young child . . . but also about something else, something unavoidable and powerful but terrifyingly vague. The SpectatorClever, exquisitely terrifying. . . . [Kehlmann] makes entertainment out of metaphysics. Harpers MagazineA screenwriter, his wife, and their four-year old daughter rent a house in the mountains of Germany, but something isnt right. As he toils on a sequel to his most successful movie, the screenwriter notices that rooms arent where he remembers themand finds in his notebook words that are not his own. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: You Should Have Left (Paperback)
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0525432914
• ISBN 13: 9780525432913
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Director, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse

“Mind-bending. . . . Part horror, part science fiction.” —The New York Times Book Review

"This is a story about a marriage in trouble, and about a seemingly impossible desire to protect a young child . . . but also about something else, something unavoidable and powerful but terrifyingly vague.” —The Spectator

“Clever, exquisitely terrifying. . . . [Kehlmann] makes entertainment out of metaphysics.” —Harper’s Magazine

A screenwriter, his wife, and their four-year old daughter rent a house in the mountains of Germany, but something isn’t right. As he toils on a sequel to his most successful movie, the screenwriter notices that rooms aren’t where he remembers them—and finds in his notebook words that are not his own.

About the Author

Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and lives in Berlin and New York. His works have won the Candide Prize, the Doderer Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Welt Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. Measuring the World was translated into more than forty languages and is one of the greatest successes in postwar German literature.