The Old Child and other Stories
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: 80th Eighth Avenue, New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2005Description: 120p., 13cmx20cmISBN: - 9780811216081
- FP2005/02
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Fiction and Poetry (FP)
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Goethe Zentrum - Kampala Library | FP2005/02 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2025-0166 |
The Old Child and Other Stories introduces in English one of Germany's most original and brilliant young authors, Jenny Erpenback. Written in sparse and highly concentrated language, " a sustained feat of verbal economy( Die Zeit), the one novella and four stories in The Old Child go beyond the limits of the expected, the real . Somber, nostalgic and often mystical, these marvelous fictions provide glimpse into the minds of outcasts and eccentrics. the parable-like novella Old child describes a girl's mind seemingly blank: picked up off the street with no discoverable past, she is brought to a children's home where she finds she can succeed by her silence. In another story, Siberia" the heroine smuggled out of a Russian camp vigorously re establishes herself in her old home.............
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