• ISBN13: 9780857427182
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publisher Imprint: Seagull
• Publication Date: April 16, 2019
• Pages: 296
• Original Price: 699.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams

About the Book 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 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</b></u> Martin Mosebach</b> is a novelist and winner of the 2007 Georg Büchner Prize, the most important literary prize for German-language literature.