· The book could easily have become a well-intentioned polemic, but Erpenbeck combines her philosophical intellect with hours of conversations conducted with refugees to Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. · A Novelist’s Powerful Response to the Refugee Crisis. In Jenny Erpenbeck’s masterly “Go, Went, Gone,” a retired academic befriends asylum Is Accessible For Free: False. Author: Jenny Erpenbeck. Translator: Susan Bernofsky. New York. New Directions. pages. In her latest novel, Go, Went, Gone, Jenny Erpenbeck, Puterbaugh Fellow, addresses the current refugee crisis that has had far-reaching political ramifications on both sides of the Atlantic. Her protagonist, Richard, a widower and retired classics professor, undertakes a project to interview Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation" (The Millions). The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies. Author: Jenny Erpenbeck. Publisher: New Directions Publishing. ISBN: Category: Fiction. Page: View: An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: "Erpenbeck will get under your skin" (Washington Post Book World) Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny. Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation" (The Millions). The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he.
The book could easily have become a well-intentioned polemic, but Erpenbeck combines her philosophical intellect with hours of conversations conducted with refugees to tell a very human story. Go, Went, Gone. In a powerful response to a growing crisis, Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel explores questions about race, immigration, refugees and European identity. Translated by Susan Bernofsky. Newly retired Richard spends his days cooking, pottering in his garden and walking around his home city of Berlin. Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation" (The Millions). The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz.
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