What Happened Before
»Sparkling, masterful, entertaining!« Pia Reinacher, Die Weltwoche
During a moment of intimacy, a young woman asks her lover a question that sounds innocent yet contains the seeds of jealousy: What was your life like before we knew each other? His answer spirals into a web of truth and fiction, a palace of lies. The city of Frankfurt provides the fantastical stage for this ingenious piece of social theatre: Do two marriages and a family really have to fall apart for a couple to find happiness together?
- A love story, at the heart of which a cockatoo bears silent witness
- A comédie humaine of erotic intrigue and errors – subtle, elegant and pointed
- »This novel belongs on the bestseller list.« Denis Scheck
Martin Mosebach, born in Frankfurt in 1951, obtained a degree in law and has since worked as a freelance author. His publications include novels, short stories, poetry, essays and librettos, for which he has received multiple awards, including the Heimito von Doderer Prize for Literature (1999), the Heinrich von Kleist Prize (2002) and the Georg Büchner Prize (2007). He most recently published the novel 'The Right One'. He lives in Frankfurt am Main.
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