01416nam a22002177a 4500 OSt 20251215062622.0 250724b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780811216081 Goethe Zentrum Library English FP2005/02 Erpenbeck, Jenny The Old Child and other Stories Geschichte vom alten Kind und Tand 80th Eighth Avenue, New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2005 120p., 13cmx20cm 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............. Bernofsky, Susan Translator Custom FP 0 136 136 0 0 Custom 0 0 GZKL GZKL 2025-07-24 0 FP2005/02 2025-0166 2025-07-24 07:10:10 2025-07-24 FP