Description: An exciting new collection of autobiographical essays by Jenny Erpenbeck, winner of the 2024 Booker International Prize: "She is among the most sophisticated and powerful novelists we have--it's no surprise that she is already bruited as a future Nobelist." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Brief description:
An epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. She studied theater at the Humboldt University in Berlin and directed operas in the nineties. She is also author of such books as The Old Child & Other Stories, The Book of Words, and The End of Days.
Review Quotes: The traces of East Germany continue to vibrate in the unsettled politics of today's Germany, and Erpenbeck applies her finely calibrated divining rod to chart that story down the decades.--Anne McElvoy "The Financial Times"