Häftad, Engelska, 2007
Book of Words
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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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2007-12-17
- Mått: 132 x 203 x 9 mm
- Vikt: 120 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 112
- Förlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- ISBN: 9780811217064
- Översättare: Susan Bernofsky
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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.Susan Bernofsky has translated works by Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse, among others, and is the recipient of many awards, including the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize. She is the director of the literary translation program at Columbia University and lives in New York.
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