Virtual Book Discussion
Welcome to LitHAUS! - a monthly reading series for contemporary German-language literature.
This month we’re meeting virtually to discuss
You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann.
Join the digital discussion on April 28, 2021 at 6PM on Zoom:
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You Should Have Left (2017), trans. Ross Benjamin
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.
About the author
Daniel Kehlmann‘s works have won the Candide Prize, the Hölderlin Prize, the Kleist Prize, the Welt Literature Prize, and the Thomas Mann Prize. He was a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library in 2016–17.
Measuring the World has been translated into more than forty languages.
Summary © Penguin Random House
LitHAUS is a monthly reading series for contemporary German-language literature. Each month’s selection will be accompanied by a discussion around the work and its wider themes. LitHAUS is free and open to everyone interested.
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