- Editorial:
- NEW DIRECTION
- Año de edición:
- 2007
- Materia:
- Novela traducida
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8112-1706-4
- Páginas:
- 93
THE BOOK OF WORDS
ERPENBECK, JENNY
A searing novella about coming of age in a land of tyranny, by one of Germany's most brilliant young authors. InThe 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.