The Old Child and Other Stories by Jenny Erpenbeck

The Old Child and Other Stories

Jenny Erpenbeck with Susan Bernofsky (Translator)

120 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction literary challenging mysterious sad slow-paced
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Written in spare, highly concentrated language, "a sustained feat of verbal economy" (Die Zeit), the one novella and four stories in The Old Child go beyond the limits of the expected, the real. Dark, serious, often mystical, these marvelous ficti...

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