A Simple Intervention

by Yael Inokai

£12.99

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A ground-breaking surgical intervention promises to free people from psychological disorders. The procedure is painless, the risks are minimal, and patients are calmer and more compliant after healing. The doctor promises them a new and productive life, free from suffering – can it be so simple?

Meret is a nurse on the surgical ward. The hospital is her home, and her uniform is her identity. She supports her patients through their interventions and is proud to be a part of the solution. But when she falls in love with another nurse, she crosses an invisible boundary and her certainty in the system begins to crumble.

With echoes of Kazuo Ishiguro and Margaret Atwood, this is the story of a world of rigid hierarchies and a love with its own rules.

 

192pp, paperback with flaps, £12.99
ISBN: 978-1-908670-87-8
Publication date: 3 October 2024

Press & Reviews

WINNER OF THE PEIRENE STEVNS PRIZE 2023

LISTED FOR THE 2022 GERMAN BOOK PRIZE

‘A haunting and thoughtful novel, Yael Inokai’s A Simple Intervention has echoes of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker-shortlisted Never Let Me Go.’ – New Books in German

‘Yael Inokai illuminates the women with clear sentences; she writes with a calm hand and is not afraid of the darkness.’ - Dorothee Elmiger, author of Out of the Sugar Factory

About The Book

Author

Yael Inokai was born in 1989 in Basel. She won the 2018 Swiss Literature Prize for her second novel, Mahlstrom. Her third novel, A Simple Intervention, was longlisted for the 2022 German Book Prize and is her first work to be translated into English. Yael Inokai lives in Berlin and is an editor for the magazine Politisch Schreiben.

Translator

Marielle Sutherland was born in 1976 in Hartlepool. She has a PhD in German and is a translator at the German Historical Institute London. Her publications include the selected poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (co-translated with Susan Ranson) and Rulantica: Hidden Island, by Michaela Hanauer. Marielle Sutherland was awarded the Peirene Stevns Translation Prize in 2023.

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