What Was Before |
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| Author:
| Mosebach, Martin |
| Translator:
| Driscoll, Kári |
| Series title: | Seagull Books - the German List Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-85742-214-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | Seagull Books
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $67.99 |
Book Description:
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A young couple are enjoying a moment of carefree intimacy when she asks him that fateful question, which sounds so innocent but carries the seed of jealousy: what was your life like before you met me? The answer grows into an entire novel, by turns a grotesque shaggy-dog story and an elaborate house of cards, full of intrigue, sex and betrayal, exotic birds and far-flung locations.
Set against the backdrop of Frankfurt’s affluent suburbs, this elliptical...
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A young couple are enjoying a moment of carefree intimacy when she asks him that fateful question, which sounds so innocent but carries the seed of jealousy: what was your life like before you met me? The answer grows into an entire novel, by turns a grotesque shaggy-dog story and an elaborate house of cards, full of intrigue, sex and 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 masterfully 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 Happened Before is an Elective Affinities for our time.