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The Director
Daniel Kehlmann
★★★★· Published 2023· 352 pages· read 2026
A brilliant, unsettling novel about a real Austrian director who came home from Hollywood to make films under Goebbels. Kehlmann turns the compromises of art under fascism into something you can't look away from. Booker-shortlisted.
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