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020			_a9780811216081
040			_cGoethe Zentrum Library
041			_aEnglish
082			_aFP2005/02
100			_aErpenbeck, Jenny
245			_aThe Old Child and other Stories
247			_aGeschichte vom alten Kind und Tand
260			_a80th Eighth Avenue, New York : _bNew Directions Publishing Corporation, _c2005
300			_a120p., _c13cmx20cm
500			_aThe 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.............
700			_aBernofsky, Susan _eTranslator
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