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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions) , Kurt BealsPublisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 13.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 20.60cm Weight: 0.214kg ISBN: 9780811229326ISBN 10: 0811229327 Pages: 212 Publication Date: 30 October 2020 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsHer restrained, unvarnished prose is overwhelming. -- Nicole Krauss Erpenbeck's writing is a lure that leads us-off-center as into a vortex-to the most haunted and haunting territory. -- Anne Michaels Wonderful, elegant, and exhilarating-ferocious as well as virtuosic. -- Deborah Eisenberg - The New York Review of Books Her restrained, unvarnished prose is overwhelming. -- Nicole Krauss The most profound, intelligent, humane, and important writer of our times. Forget the nombrilistes writing about themselves who have taken up so much of the conversational space. Jenny Erpenbeck is where it is all happening. She watches, notes, records, and interprets the world, not just herself in it. This is real literature: alive, vital, necessary, witty, beautiful, transformative. -- Neel Mukherjee Erpenbeck's writing is a lure that leads us-off-center as into a vortex-to the most haunted and haunting territory. -- Anne Michaels The impact is of a master at work-Erpenbeck ought to be considered for the Nobel. -- John Domini - The Washington Post Wonderful, elegant, and exhilarating-ferocious as well as virtuosic. -- Deborah Eisenberg - The New York Review of Books Fearless, playful, incisive. Erpenbeck is unique -- Rachel Seiffert Erpenbeck's writing is a lure that leads us--off-center as into a vortex--to the most haunted and haunting territory.--Anne Michaels Her restrained, unvarnished prose is overwhelming.--Nicole Krauss Wonderful, elegant, and exhilarating--ferocious as well as virtuosic.--Deborah Eisenberg Author InformationJenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. New Directions publishes her books The Old Child & Other Stories, The Book of Words, and Visitation, which NPR called ""a story of the century as seen by the objects we've known and lost along the way."" In 2010 Kurt Beals was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award for Anja Utler's engulf–enkindle, and in 2012 he won the first ever German Book Office Translation Prize. His translation of Regina Ullmann's The Country Road was published by New Directions in 2015. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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