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.

丹尼爾• 凱曼（Daniel Kehlmann）

德國當代作傢，評論傢。1975年齣生於慕尼黑。後考入維也納大學，攻讀哲學與德國文學。

1997年齣版第一本小說《貝爾宏姆的想象》。2003年，小說《我與康明斯基》為他贏得世界聲譽。2005年，剛滿30歲的他齣版《丈量世界》，被譯為40多種語言，銷量突破200萬冊，被譽為二戰後德語文學最偉大的成就之一。2008年獲托馬斯•曼奬。