Go, went, gone /
Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967-
Go, went, gone / Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated by Susan Bernofsky. - 286 pages ; 20 cm
The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the Africans than he realizes.
9780811225946 0811225941
2017013730
Refugees--Europe--Fiction.
Widowers--Fiction.
Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.
Novels.
Go, went, gone / Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated by Susan Bernofsky. - 286 pages ; 20 cm
The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the Africans than he realizes.
9780811225946 0811225941
2017013730
Refugees--Europe--Fiction.
Widowers--Fiction.
Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.
Novels.