# F

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- Book: [F](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-kehlmann/f) ([F.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-kehlmann/f.md))
- Authors: [Daniel Kehlmann](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-kehlmann)
- Publisher: riverrun
- ISBN: 978-17-8429-623-0
- Published: 2015-05-21
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'A comic tour de force, a biting satire on the hypnotized world of artificial wants and needs that Huxley predicted, a moving study of brotherhood and family failure, F is an astonishing book, a work of deeply satisfying (and never merely clever) complexity' - John Burnside Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family - fakers, all of them - and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with them. Having achieved nothing in life, Arthur Friedland is tricked on stage by a hypnotist and told to change everything. After he abandons his three young sons, they grow up to be a faithless priest, a broke financier and a forger. Each of them cultivates absence. One will be lost to it. A novel about the game of fate and the fetters of family, F never stops questioning, exploring and teasing at every twist and turn of its Rubik's Cube-like narrative. **Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015**