I do not know the book itself so far, therefore, began with the audio book. The lecture by Daniel Kehlmann himself is so unbearably bad that I did not come out despite a charming and my curiosity-making story about the first 4 tracks of the first 3 CDs. Kehlmann reads as just an average person would read something like this: lame, expressionless, read, with inappropriate pauses in sentences. Probably read most mothers bedtime stories before better. CONCLUSION: better choose the book instead of the audio book