The Director - Daniel Kehlmann Taken from the Greek

Taken from the Greek

Astrid Hekne dreams of a life beyond all this

and when others realise this

Translator: Anna Summers

pristine apartment and a high-flying job in the seafood division of one of Japan's largest trading companies

The Director - Daniel Kehlmann Taken from the GreekG. 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