Scenes from the Life of a Best-Selling Author

First edition in English. 8vo. 119pp. Brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

Translated from the German by Karen Leeder. Collection of short stories originally collected in 1998 as Aus dem Leben eines Erfolgsschriftstellers, by Sanssouci Verlag, München.

Whether by abandoning fame to care for a gymnasium-sized beast, by endeavouring to prove that all history stems from typos, or by harnessing the moon to predict world events, Krüger's characters consistently opt for art over life, in this comic caper of a book. Recipient of the 1996 Prix Médicis Étranger for his 1993 novel Himmelfarb. "A humorist worthy to be ranked with Saki." –Times Literary Supplement