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Written in spare, highly concentrated language, "a sustained feat of verbal economy" (Die Zeit), the one novella and four stories in The Old Child go beyond the limits of the expected, the real. Dark, serious, often mystical, these marvelous fictions about women's lives provide glimpses into the minds of outcasts and eccentrics, at the same time bearing out Dostoevsky's comment that hope can be found so long as a man can see even a tiny view of the sky.
Product Details
Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
Publish Date | October 17, 2005 |
Pages | 125 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780811216081 |
Dimensions | 8.0 X 5.2 X 0.4 inches | 0.4 pounds |
About the Author
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.
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.
Reviews
Oppressive, charming, scary: every story has its own mood. Intelligently constructed, thought-provoking, full of the cunning of writerly finesse.-- "Cosmopolitan"
Erpenbeck's writing is so concentrated, so dense, that a slim volume of stories packs the weight of the world.--Ira Panic
Erpenbeck's writing is so concentrated, so dense, that a slim volume of stories packs the weight of the world.--Ira Panic
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