Erpenbeck, Jenny creator Bernofsky, Susan Translator text 80th Eighth Avenue, New York New Directions Publishing Corporation 2005 monographic eng Eng lis h

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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............. FP2005/02 9780811216081 250724 20251215062622.0