The Book of Words
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...
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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 it "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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780811217064 (081121706X)
Publish date: December 15th 2007
Publisher: New Directions
Pages no: 93
Edition language: English
http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/56511274687/the-book-of-words-by-jenny-erpenbeckThe narrator does not stay a young girl though at times it is hard to decipher. At one point I know she is seventeen, but it never feels that way. This makes her even more difficult to describe. But why should we? Isn't it...
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