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Item Details
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BOOK OF WORDS
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| By: |
Jenny Erpenbeck |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£12.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
184627057X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846270574 |
| Publisher: |
GRANTA BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2007 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
112 |
| Translated from: |
German |
| Description: |
A follow-up to "The Old Child", intended for fans of the fiction of George Saunders, Judy Budnitz, Gina Ochsner, Margaret Atwood and Siri Hustvedt. |
| Synopsis: |
This is a brilliant and beguiling follow up to "The Old Child" for a writer of originality who deserves to be in the same league as Ali Smith and Safran Foer.This title is intended for anyone who relishes boldness, allegory and a twist in the telling: fans of the fiction of George Saunders, Judy Budnitz, Gina Ochsner, Margaret Atwood and Siri Hustvedt.The unnamed narrator of the 'book of words' has a dark past and with these words - carefully chosen and dropped like a trail through a forest - the reader is compelled to tread with her the uncertain and spiky terrain of memory. First there is her childhood. She was raised by a wet nurse, who took the place that should have been filled by her ever-distant mother. Then her school days: a piano teacher, a gardener, and her friend Anna, whose mind is filled with violent fantasies. And, all the while in the background, her father - a man full of knowledge and an idealised hero, until she realises that the world she has grown up in has begun to grind to a halt.Public transport is stopped, businesses are closed, and figures from her childhood disappear one after another - the regime is tightening its grip and it seems that her father is right at its centre. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Portobello Books Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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