The Book of Words (New Directions Paperbook)

ISBN: 9780811217064

出版社: New Directions

出版年: 2007-12-15

页数: 96

定价: USD 14.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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 it "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.