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Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing, the book plots a journey through the works and subjects that have inspired and influenced her. Written with the same clarity and insight that characterize her fiction, the pieces range from literary criticism and reflections on Germany's history, to the autobiographical essays where Erpenbeck forgoes the literary cloak to write from a deeply personal perspective about life and politics, hope and despair, and the role of the writer in grappling with these forces. Here we see one of the most searching of European writers reckoning with her country's divided past in all its complexity, and responding to the world today with insight, intelligence and humanity.

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The most profound, intelligent, humane, and important writer of our times... This is real literature: alive, vital, necessary, witty, beautiful, transformative -- Neel Mukherjee Fearless, playful, incisive. Erpenbeck is unique -- Rachel Seiffert One of Europe's most highly regarded writers, perpetually striving to create an artistic prism through which to interpret history's arc... -- Catherine Taylor * Financial Times * The strength of this collection is in how it upends many of our perceptions of life in the GDR and what the fall of the Berlin Wall means to those who experienced it * New European * A wonderfully gripping story that ventures fearlessly into some pretty dark family secrets to tell the story of a Europe you won't find in conventional history books * New European *

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Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017). Her fiction has been translated into over 30 languages.

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