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Go, Went, Gone
Gehen, ging, gegangen
Jenny Erpenbeck (born 1967)
Translated by Susan Bernofsky
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Go, Went, Gone
New Directions · United States · 2017 · 286 pages
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Go, Went, Gone
Portobello Books · United Kingdom · 2017 · 286 pages
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How do you bear the passing of time when you are forced to be idle? How do you cope with losing those you loved? Who carries on what is left? Richard, a retired professor, comes across the asylum seekers protesting on Oranienplatz in Berlin and decides to look for answers where no one else would: among young refugees from Africa who are stranded in the city and condemned to wait for years. Talking to them, he goes ever deeper into what stays hidden beneath the surface, bureaucratic inhumanity and endless waiting, until this world looks back at him, the inhabitant of old Europe.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 351 pages in the original
- Genres
- Migration, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Germany
- First published
- 2015 by Knaus Verlag
- Author's age
- 48 when first published
- ISBN
9783813503708 (original)
9780811225946 (New Directions, United States)
9781846276200 (Portobello Books, United Kingdom)
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