What Was Before (The German List) - Hardcover

Mosebach, Martin

 
9780857422149: What Was Before (The German List)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0857422146 ISBN 13: 9780857422149
Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Martin Mosebach’s novel What Was Before opens with a young couple enjoying a moment of carefree intimacy. Then the young woman, turning slightly more serious, asks her lover that fateful question, one that sounds so innocent but carries toxic seeds of jealousy: What was your life like before you met me? The answer grows into an entire book, an elaborate house of cards, filled with intrigue, sex, betrayal, exotic birds, and far-flung locations.

Set against the backdrop of Frankfurt’s affluent suburbs, this elliptical tale of coincidence and necessity unfolds through a series of masterly constructed vignettes, which gradually come together to form a scintillating portrait of the funny, tender, and destructive guises that love between two people can assume and the effect it has on everyone around them. Hailed in Germany as the first great social novel of the twenty-first century, What Was Before is an Elective Affinities for our time.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Martin Mosebach is the author of numerous short stories, poems, essays, plays, and novels, including Heresy of Formlessness. Kári Driscoll studied German literature at the University of Oxford and Columbia University.

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Verlag
Seagull Books London Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0857422146
ISBN 13 
9780857422149
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
251
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