The Director - Daniel Kehlmann Now a global bestseller

Now a global bestseller

she awakens his fierce longing for tenderness

Astrid Hekne dreams of a life beyond all this

Translator: Anna Summers

One morning

The Director - Daniel Kehlmann Now a global bestsellerG. W. Pabst, one of cinema's greatest, perhaps the greatest director of his era: when the Nazis seized power he was filming in France, to escape the horrors of the new Germany he flees to Hollywood. But under the blinding California sun, the world famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, who he made famous, can help him. And thus, almost through no fault of his own, he finds himself back in his homeland of Austria, which is