num_pages: 113
description: From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapseIt is fitting that I'm beginning a new notebook up here. New surroundings and new ideas a new beginning. Fresh air.These are the opening lines of the journal kept by the narrator of Daniel Kehlmann's spellbinding new novel: the record of the seven days that he his wife and his four-year-old daughter spend in a house they have rented in the mountains of Germanya house that thwarts the expectations of his recollection and seems to defy the very laws of physics. The narrator is eager to finish a screenplay entitled Marriage for a sequel to the movie that launched his career but something he cannot explain is undermining his convictions and confidence a process he is recording in this account of the uncanny events that unfold as he tries to understand what exactly is happening around himand in himself.
language: English
title: You Should Have Left
publisher: Vintage