Das Vorkommnis

Lifelines - Love Lines - Love Patterns

A woman is approached by a stranger who claims they share the same father. The surprising encounter is fleeting but triggers a wave of emotions within her. Questions arise about marriage and motherhood, about adoption and other family secrets, about truth in general. In "The Incident," Julia Schoch - one of the most striking voices in autofictional storytelling in German literature - narrates a life that suddenly takes a different direction. Gripping and insightful, she draws the reader into the whirlpool of extraordinary events that are also part of everyday life. A novel of great literary depth and beauty, marking a new high point in Julia Schoch's work.

"The Incident is, and I rarely say this, a literary masterpiece, a virtuoso work about memory and repression." Elke Heidenreich.