The Book of Words (New Directions Paperbook)

Type

Book

Authors

Jenny Erpenbeck

ISBN 10

081121706X

ISBN 13

9780811217064

Tags

Coming of Age, Contemporary, Literary, Reference, Magical Realism

Description

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. - from Amzon

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