The Director (Signed first printing)
Signed by Daniel Kehlmann
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First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 24 × 16cm, 333pp.
Signed directly to the title page by Daniel Kehlmann.
When the Nazis seize power in the 1930s, G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors, is filming in France. To escape the horrors of the new Germany, he flees to Hollywood. But under the dazzling California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, whom he made famous, can help him. When Pabst receives word that his elderly mother is ailing, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is now called Ostmark. Pabst, his wife and his young son are confronted with the barbaric nature of the regime, but the minister of propaganda in Berlin wants the film genius. He won’t take no for an answer, and he makes big promises. While Pabst still believes that he will be able to resist these advances, that he will not submit to any dictatorship other than art, he has already taken the first steps into a hopeless entanglement.
Condition
This copy is in very good condition, with just a little light wrinkling to the wrapper's spine ends and corners. It is not price-clipped and is now within a protective sleeve.
ISBN
9781529435115
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Price
£60.00
