Old Child & Other Stories

Name: Old Child & Other Stories
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ISBN: 9780811216081

ISBN-10: 081121608X

ISBN-13: 9780811216081

Edition: 2005

Authors: Susan Bernofsky, Jenny Erpenbeck

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Sparse, engaging fiction by one of Germany's most original young writers. The Old Child & Other Stories introduces in English one of Germany's most original and brilliant young authors, Jenny Erpenbeck. 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 fictions about women's lives provide glimpses into the minds of outcasts and eccentrics, at the same time bearing out Dostoevsky's comment that hope can be found so long as a man can see even a tiny view of the sky. The parable-like novella "The Old…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 10/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 125
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.10" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



The story of the old child


The sun-flecked shadows of my skull


Sand


Hale and hallowed


Siberia


Light a fire or leave