Beside Myself

Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Imogen Taylor

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English

Text Publishing Company
05 February 2019

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

From award-winning German playwright Sasha Marianna Salzmann comes this multigenerational debut novel, a pan-European saga that plays with genre, gender and Jewish identity.

Beside Myself is the disturbing and exhilarating story of a family across four generations. At its heart is one woman's search for her twin brother. When Anton goes missing and the only clue is a postcard sent from Istanbul, Alissa leaves her life in Berlin to find him. Without her twin, the sharer of her memories and the mirror of her own self, Ali is lost.

In a city steeped in political and social changes, where you can buy gender-changing drugs on the street, Ali's search-for her missing brother, for her identity-will take her on a journey for connection and belonging.

Beside Myself is a brilliant literary debut about belonging, about family and love, and about the enigmatic nature of identity.

By: Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Translated by: Imogen Taylor
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781911231257
ISBN 10: 1911231251
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 05 February 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sasha Marianna Salzmann was born in Volgograd in 1985 and grew up in Moscow. In 1995 she emigrated with her family to Germany and studied literature, theatre and media at the University of Hildesheim. She has been awarded multiple accolades for her plays, and Beside Myself was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2017. Salzmann now teaches creative writing in Germany, Turkey, Moldova, Spain, Italy and the USA.

Reviews for Beside Myself

`Beautifully written despite the darkness of its story and texture. There are hundreds of glimpses of worlds inside worlds...Beside Myself is both a cool thriller and a meditation on family.' * Saturday Paper * 'Sasha Marianna Salzmann's debut novel comes straight from the gates like a raging bull...Beside Myself is fiction at its highest purpose. If we read to understand ours and others' unbearable lightness-to try and make sense of our surroundings-this book is truly the contemporary counterpart to ideas on family, identity, time and place. It illuminates the gaps we previously thought were great divides, showing what more we can learn from each other.' * ArtsHub * `Salzmann thoughtfully and cleverly addresses the themes of memory, identity, and migration, asking if language, nationality, or gender are important for our self-definition.' * World of Literature Today *