The Incident – Biography of a Woman (vol. I)
Family trees and the roots of Love
A woman is approached by a stranger who claims that they have the same father. This encounter, although brief, unleashes an overwhelming wave of emotions in her. Questions fill her mind: questions about marriage and motherhood, adoption and family secrets – but most of all, questions about truth. In ‘The Incident’, Julia Schoch, one of the most influential voices in contemporary German autofiction, tells of a life transformed from one moment to the next. She captivatingly and cleverly draws the reader into a whirlpool of outrageous events – events which, despite being fictional, remain eerily familiar to us all.
- A beautiful novel narrated with distinctive lightness that reaches great literary depths
- Simultaneously crisp, sensitive, and profound
- Julia Schoch at her best, following in the footsteps of great female GDR writers
Julia Schoch, born in 1974, works as a freelance author and translator. She received countless nominations and awards for both her writing and her translations. Her novel The Incident was awarded with the Schubart-Literaturpreis in 2023. She also received the German Schiller Foundation Award in 2022 for her literary works.
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