The Incarnations

The Incarnations
AuthorSusan Barker
Audio read byTimo Chen
Joy Osmanski
LanguageEnglish
GenreLiterary fiction
Set inBeijing, China
PublisherDoubleday
Publication date
3 July 2014
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint, ebook, audiobook
Pages384 pp
ISBN9780857522573
(hardcover 1st ed.)
OCLC885020345
Preceded byThe 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]

  1. ^ McHugh, Fionnuala (July 5, 2014). "Continental drifter: novelist Susan Barker opens up about her nomadic lifestyle". Retrieved April 30, 2019.