Measuring the World marks the debut of a glorious new talent on the international scene. Young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann’s brilliant comic novel revolves around the meeting of two colossal geniuses of the Enlightenment.Late in the eighteenth century, two young Germans set out to measure the world. One of them, the aristocratic naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, negotiates jungles, voyages down the Orinoco River, tastes poisons, climbs the highest mountain known to man, counts head lice, and explores and measures every cave and hill he comes across. The other, the reclusive and barely socialized mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, can prove that space is curved without leaving his home. Terrifyingly famous and wildly eccentric, these two polar opposites finally meet in Berlin in 1828, and are immediately embroiled in the turmoil of the post-Napolean world.

丹尼尔• 凯曼（Daniel Kehlmann）

德国当代作家，评论家。1975年出生于慕尼黑。后考入维也纳大学，攻读哲学与德国文学。

1997年出版第一本小说《贝尔宏姆的想象》。2003年，小说《我与康明斯基》为他赢得世界声誉。2005年，刚满30岁的他出版《丈量世界》，被译为40多种语言，销量突破200万册，被誉为二战后德语文学最伟大的成就之一。2008年获托马斯•曼奖。