Years Ago in Germany

"In [Daniel Kehlmann's] first novel translated into English, the 31-year-old literary wunderkind's breezy, sometimes charming and ultimately inconsequential work follows the actual lives, careers and eventual intersection of two of Germany's brightest scientists: explorer, geographer and naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt and the astronomer and aptly crowned 'prince of mathematicians' Carl Friedrich Gauss."

"Breezy, sometimes charming and ultimately inconsequential"? Sounds 100 times deeper than Paris Hilton. Add it to my queue.

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