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Leinwand ohne Gesicht

Pages
250
Published
2022
Language
German

Synopsis

Lea, twenty-two, has lived for two years in a private Berlin clinic for patients who have lost their memories, ever since a fatal accident she can't recall. She can't access her past, and she can barely feel anything anymore — only her therapy fox, Kalle, is allowed to touch her.

Things shift when a new patient arrives and grows unusually close to her, testing the patience of her husband Golo, who pushes her toward a return to life "outside" the clinic. Then fate confronts Lea with a canvas that reveals its image piece by piece — one that threatens to tear apart the fragile world she's built around her missing memory.

Told from shifting character and narrative perspectives, the novel is built around emotional and narrative taboo-breaking, with a literary, non-linear structure.

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