The Book of Words - Paperback
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan BernofskySeries:New Directions PaperbookPublish date:2007-12-01Pages:112
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811217064ISBN-10:081121706XUPC:9780811217064Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, Magical RealismSize:8.04 x 5.39 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SCW79M40C9
In The Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures with amazing virtuosity the inner life of a young girl who survives the totalitarian regime of a curiously unnamed South American country (most likely Argentina during its "dirty war"). Raised by parents whose real identity ends up shocking her, the girl comes of age in a country where gunshots are mistaken for blown tires, innocent citizens are dragged off buses, and tortured and disappeared friends and family return to visit her from the dead.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811217064ISBN-10:081121706XUPC:9780811217064Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Coming of Age, Magical RealismSize:8.04 x 5.39 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.25Product ID:SCW79M40C9
Bernofsky, Susan: - Susan Bernofsky is the acclaimed translator of Hermann Hesse, Robert Walser, and Jenny Erpenbeck, and the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and the Hermann Hesse Translation Prize. She teaches literary translation at Columbia University and lives in New York.Erpenbeck, Jenny: -
An epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. She studied theater at the Humboldt University in Berlin and directed operas in the nineties. She is also author of such books as The Old Child & Other Stories, The Book of Words, and The End of Days.
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