- Fiction, Natural Numbers, Mathematics, Dreams
Annoyed with his math teacher who assigns word problems and won't let him use a calculator, twelve-year-old Robert finds help from the number devil in his dreams.
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- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 262
- Publisher
- Granta Books, Einaudi ragazzi, Paw Prints 2008-04-25
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- Italian, Portuguese, German, Korean
- ISBN
- 9780613285919
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First sentence
“Robert was tired of dreaming.”
About Hans Magnus Enzensberger · 1929–2022
German author, poet, translator and editor
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