The Discovery of Slowness

By Sten Nadolny

Book Overview

"Absolutely stunning."--Times Literary Supplement" The Discovery of Slowness] is about a guy who is so incredibly slow in his perception that he . . . actually sees shadows moving. T]he amazing thing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841954942
• ISBN13: 9781841954943
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.8" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

Read It More Than Once

My encounter with this book was a bit magical. I arrived at a B & B in Vail and one of Mr. Nadolny's other books was on a table in the common area. I asked about it, and the proprietress said Mr. Nadolny had left that morning and had given her the book. I read it, loved it, and sought out his other works. My favorite review of this book describes it as "a utopia of character." Truly it is. Yes, it's a nice little biography...

Slowness and Respect

I read "Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit" when it came out in German in 1983, and loved it. Unfortuntately, it was a borrowed copy, and I kept looking for it among my collection of German books when I often referred it to others. Now I again had an opportunity to refer to it while reading Patricia Wood's new (and first) novel Lottery, which is also about a very slow person, Perry, who gains respect and friendship after what...

It moves me through and through Lord Child! it show am good.

I like taking this book out for a long night stroll. Maybe it's lightly raining, of course it's dark with only street lights to light up the words on the page. It moves me through and through Lord! Child! it shorely am good it good it good! it so damn good!

do yourself the favour and read this book . . .

this book is unusually thruthful and gripped me from the beginning to the very end - maybe because of the fact that I have something in common with Franklin. So convincinglty written , I'd like to have met the protagonist !

German classic best-seller in English at last!

The publication (or to be more accurate, re-publication) in English of Sten Nadolny's The Discovery of Slowness is a major literary event, not only for connoisseurs of fine historical fiction, but also for those of us who concern themselves with leadership, communication and systems-thinking issues. First published in Germany in 1983, this powerful novel of the life of explorer John Franklin has never been out-of-print...