The Book of Words
The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky
English | December 17, 2007 | ISBN: 081121706X | True EPUB | 112 pages | 1.8 MB
English | December 17, 2007 | ISBN: 081121706X | True EPUB | 112 pages | 1.8 MB
A searing novella about coming of age in a land of tyranny, by one of Germany's most brilliant young authors.
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.