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A wildly ambitious novel, a beyond-brave memoir, and an expansive modern history: We loved them from the first page, and we’d like to re-introduce them to the Aesthetes.
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By Daniel Kehlmann

Publisher: Pantheon
Pages: 272

A family visits a hypnotist who changes the course of their lives. The latest from the best German novelist you've never heard of will leave you wondering how something so slender and existentially funny could knock you flat.

— Natalie Beach

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