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Beside Myself
Außer sich
Sasha Marianna Salzmann (born 1985)
Translated by Imogen Taylor
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Beside Myself
Other Press · United States · 18 February 2020 · Paperback · 336 pages
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Beside Myself
Text Publishing · Australia · 2019 · 336 pages
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They are two from the start, the twins Alissa and Anton. In a two-room flat in post-Soviet Moscow, they cling to each other's curls when their parents go at each other. Later, in the West German provinces, they roam the corridors of a home for asylum seekers. Later still, Anton disappears without a trace. At some point a postcard arrives from Istanbul, with no text and no sender. Alissa sets out to look for her missing brother, but above all for a sense of belonging beyond fatherland, mother tongue or gender, one of a young generation of wanderers fighting for its identity in language, politics and sex.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 365 pages in the original
- Genres
- Migration, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Russia, Germany, Türkiye
- First published
- 2017 by Suhrkamp Verlag
- Author's age
- 32 when first published
- ISBN
9783518427620 (original)
9781911231257 (Text Publishing, Australia)
9781892746443 (Other Press, United States)
- More
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