Eric is a businessman whose financial misdeeds are about to catch up with him Ivan is an art dealer and forger. Martin's half-brothers - identical twins Eric and Ivan - had been inseparable (and indistinguishable) as boys but are now drawn apart by the secrets they keep from each other. Although now an ordained priest, he cannot manage to conjure actual belief in even the most basic tenets of faith. Martin, the son of an earlier marriage, is overweight, socially awkward and still obsessed with the Rubik's Cube his father gave him as a boy. When we next meet the brothers, they are grown, and each is experiencing a crisis of sorts. The boys will not see him again until they are adults.Īrthur Friedland's abandonment of his children is the tragedy at the center of this beautifully translated novel by German-Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann.
We learn later that he has taken his passport and emptied the family bank account. They leave the show, he drops his sons off and drives away. Called onto the stage, the father's cool self-possession and confidence seem to prevail, and he walks away, claiming no effect. How?Ī father takes his three sons to a hypnotist's show.
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