Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, “one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation” ( The Millions). New York Times Notable Book 2018 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2018 Lois Roth Award WinnerĪn unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: “Erpenbeck will get under your skin” ( Washington Post Book World)
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