You Should Have Left

By Daniel Kehlmann

Book Overview

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - From the internationally bestselling author of The Director, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse

"Mind-bending. . . . Part horror, part science fiction." --The New York Times Book Review

"This is a story about a marriage in trouble, and about a seemingly impossible desire to protect a young child . . . but also about something else, something unavoidable and powerful but terrifyingly vague." --The Spectator

"Clever, exquisitely terrifying. . . . Kehlmann] makes entertainment out of metaphysics." --Harper's Magazine

A screenwriter, his wife, and their four-year old daughter rent a house in the mountains of Germany, but something isn't right. As he toils on a sequel to his most successful movie, the screenwriter notices that rooms aren't where he remembers them--and finds in his notebook words that are not his own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525432914
• ISBN13: 9780525432913
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Liked It

I liked it, but I think it should have been way longer. I would have liked to see more tension built. Still, it was a good story that got the job done being only as long as it is