What is it like to live and love when you don't know who you are or where you come from? George Psalmanazar decides to invent an identity for himself, one so fantastical that everyone he meets in London in 1760 is dazzled by it. In his homeland of Formosa, George fabricates, people lived as sun worshippers and cannibals, running around naked and communicating by singing; he himself claims to have been adopted there by Jesuits. This contradicts everything missionaries and travelers had reported up to that point, yet everyone believes the fake Japanese man's stories. Even socialite Samuel Johnson, the English Goethe, falls for his charade and immediately decides to take George under his wing. George even makes it to Oxford. But what is it like to live when you constantly fear being exposed and attacked? Luckily, there is Lucy, Johnson's daughter, who falls in love with George, even though she suspects he is probably an imposter, and certainly a man with a dark secret... biography Daniela Dröscher, born in Munich in 1977, studied German, English, and Philosophy in Trier and London and received her doctorate from the University of Potsdam for her work on the poetics of Yoko Tawada. She writes prose, plays, and essays, and in 2005 received the Essay Prize of the Young Academy Berlin as well as the Schiller Essay Prize of the City of Weimar. In 2008, she participated as a scholarship recipient in the writers' workshop of the Literary Colloquium Berlin. New product