Die Lügnerin

Nothing in this novel is true. But everything is accurate. In a secluded private clinic, a woman sits and claims something almost unbelievable: she can lie so well that everything she tells eventually becomes true. With each session in which she confesses her life story—a spectacular tale full of deception and enrichment, eerie coincidences, and otherworldly happiness—her therapist becomes increasingly uncertain. What if the woman is telling the truth? And even she herself can hardly escape the influence of this highly gifted inventor of alternative realities. As the strangest things begin to happen in the clinic itself, the therapist starts to grasp the extent of this fantastic power. And that she has long since become a part of it. One does not need to be a prophet to see that the stars are aligned for Friedemann Karig's amusing novel about chance and fortune-telling, fate, and charlatans of all kinds. Denis Scheck.