When they found her, she was standing on the street with an empty bucket in one hand. When they asked her what she was called, where she lived, who her family was, her memory was a blank. So now, the girl has been deposited in an orphanage, where she dresses in the same clothes as the others, and attends the same lessons, but even here, she and they know that she doesn't quite fit. Somewhere, within the girl's sturdy, slow body, beneath her watchful silence, the truth about her identity and her past lies hidden, until - in spare, harsh prose - Erpenbeck draws it coolly out.
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When they found her, she was standing on the street with an empty bucket in one hand. When they asked her what she was called, where she lived, who her family was, her memory was a blank. So now, the girl has been deposited in an orphanage. Somewhere, beneath her watchful silence, the truth about her identity and her past lies hidden.
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'I haven't read anything this good - this bracing, unflinching and alive - for a long time.' - Nicole Krauss, author of A History of Love 'Erpenbeck will get under your skin' - Washington Post 'Oppressive, charming, scary - Jenny Erpenbeck is the rising star of the German literary scene' - Cosmopolitan
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781846270567
Publisert
2006-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Portobello Books Ltd
Høyde
168 mm
Bredde
127 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
124

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Biographical note

JENNY ERPENBECK was born in East Berlin in 1967. She has worked on opera and musical productions and her fiction has been translated worldwide. She currently mans Germany's most charming literary post: she is the Poet of the Island of Sylt 2006