The Book of Words (New Directions Paperbook)
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The Book of Words (New Directions Paperbook)
Book Details
- Author
- Jenny Erpenbeck
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Coming of Age
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780811217064
- ISBN-10
- 081121706X
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ISBN: 081121706X
Author: Erpenbeck, Jenny
Condition: New
A searing novella about coming of age in a land of tyranny, by one of Germany's most brilliant young authors. In The Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures with amazing virtuosity the inner life of a young girl who survives the totalitarian regime of a curiously unnamed South American country (most likely Argentina during its "dirty war"). Raised by parents whose real identity ends up shocking her, the girl comes of age in a country where gunshots are mistaken for blown tires, innocent citizens are dragged off buses, and tortured and disappeared friends and family return to visit her from the dead.
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