What Was Before

By: Martin Mosebach, Kri Driscoll (Translator)

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Paperback | 1 April 2022 | Edition Number 1

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296 Pages

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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.

About the Author

Martin Mosebach is a novelist and winner of the 2007 Georg B chner Prize, the most important literary prize for German-language literature.

About the Translator

Kari Driscoll studied German literature at the University of Oxford and Columbia University.

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