Daniel Kehlmann

Me and Kaminski is a 2003 novel by the Austrian-German writer Daniel Kehlmann. It tells the story of a "klutzy journalist" who goes on a journey with an elderly painter he is writing a biography about.

A man buys a mobile phone and starts receiving calls intended for someone else. After some initial hesitation, he begins to play with his new identity. From one day to the next, an actor's phone falls dead silent, as though someone had stolen his life. A writer takes a pair of trips with a woman whose worst fear is to …