Go, Went, Gone - Couverture rigide

Erpenbeck, Jenny

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1846276209 ISBN 13 : 9781846276200

Editeur : Portobello Books Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on Oranienplatz, he discovers a new community -- a tent city, established by African asylum seekers. Hesitantly, getting to know the new arrivals, Richard finds his life changing, as he begins to question his own sense of belonging in a city that once divided its citizens into them and us. At once a passionate contribution to the debate on race, privilege and nationality and a beautifully written examination of an ageing man's quest to find meaning in his life, Go, Went, Gone showcases one of the great contemporary European writers at the height of her powers.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017). as well as Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections (2020). Her work is translated into over thirty languages.

SUSAN BERNOFSKY is the prizewinning translator of works by Robert Walser, Yoko Tawada, Jenny Erpenbeck, Franz Kafka, and Hermann Hesse. She is the author, most recently, of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Portobello Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1846276209
• ISBN 13: 9781846276200
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible