What Was Before - Couverture rigide

Mosebach, Martin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0857422146 ISBN 13 : 9780857422149

Editeur : Seagull Books London Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857422146
• ISBN 13: 9780857422149
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
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• Personne responsable: non disponible