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Author | Susan Barker |
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Audio read by | Timo Chen Joy Osmanski |
Language | English |
Genre | Literary fiction |
Set in | Beijing, China |
Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 3 July 2014 |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print, ebook, audiobook |
Pages | 384 pp |
ISBN | 9780857522573 (hardcover 1st ed.) |
OCLC | 885020345 |
Preceded by | The Orientalist and the Ghost |
The Incarnations is a 2014 British novel by Susan Barker. The novel was originally published by Doubleday in 2014 before being released in North America in 2015. Set in Beijing the novel focuses on a taxi driver, Wang Jun, who begins receiving ominous letters from someone claiming to be his re-incarnated soulmate who has known him over six previous incarnations.
According to Barker she spent six years completing the novel which was written as she lived in Beijing, Seoul, Colorado, Boston, Leeds, Washington DC, London and Shenzhen.[1]