Bibliograph

Go, went, gone, Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated by Susan Bernofsky

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Go, went, gone, Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated by Susan Bernofsky

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Go, went, gone

Oclc number

975847010

Responsibility statement

Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated by Susan Bernofsky

Summary

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

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