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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100525432914

ISBN-139780525432913

eBay Product ID (ePID)3038595521

Product Key Features

Book TitleYou Should Have Left : a Novel

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGhost, Visionary & Metaphysical, Literary

Publication Year2018

GenreFiction

AuthorDaniel Kehlmann

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2016-043779

Reviews"This mind-bending novella about a writer losing his marbles contains images that startle and linger....The most arresting of the book's chilling moments might do for baby monitors what 'Jaws' did for swimming in the ocean....[Kehlmann] manages a few darkly comic flourishes...provocative...potent...pleasantly unsettling." -- John Williams, The New York Times "A quick, fun breathless read. It's inventive and scary--and a delightful take on the writing life." -- Huffington Post "A beautifully crafted exercise in terror from one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary authors....This novel is, in many ways, a classic haunted-house tale. There are warnings about the house from the people in the village below. There's a creeping sense of horror. There are frightening phenomena that the narrator cannot explain. And there are specters. Kehlmann uses all these familiar tropes beautifully. But he also creates a sense of existential dread that transcends the typical ghost story....A book to keep you up at night." -- Kirkus Reviews, * starred review * "A well-crafted tale about one man unravelling due to forces beyond his control.... You Should Have Left-- part-horror, part-psychodrama--serves up effective shocks and thrills that keep us rapt and on the edge of our seats. The narrator's journal slides from excerpts from his screenplay to accounts of his own creeped-out tragedy, and slips from coherence to jumbled trains of thought, and each time we lose purchase yet delight in the confusion and the tension." --Malcolm Forbes, The National "My favorite German novelist." --Ian McEwan, The Sunday Times (London)

SynopsisNow a Major Motion Picture From the internationally bestselling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse 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., From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse 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.

LC Classification NumberPT2671.E32D813 2017