The ingenious comic novel named one of the and "best books of 2004 and " by The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun .In The Story of My Baldness, Viennese philosophy student Marek van der Jagt tells the story of his quest for l'amour fou . Van der Jagt introduces a host of unforgettable characters and weaves a web of shameful secrets in this novel that uses Vienna the way Kafka used Prague - as the (strangely familiar) landscape where the narrator's obsessions are given free rein.