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Jenny Erpenbeck : The Book of Words (New Directions Paperbook)
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Author: Jenny Erpenbeck
Title: The Book of Words (New Directions Paperbook)
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Published in: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Date: 2007-12-15
ISBN: 081121706X
Publisher: New Directions
Weight: 0.25 pounds
Size: 5.31 x 0.31 x 7.91 inches
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A searing novella about coming of age in a land of tyranny, by one of Germany's most brilliant young authors.

In The 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.
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