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Go, went, gone / Jenny Erpenbeck

By:

Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967-

Contributor(s):

Bernofsky, Susan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : New Direction Books : 2017, c2015Description: 286 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780811225946

Subject(s):

Refugees -- Europe -- Fiction

DDC classification:

FIC ERP

Summary: The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the Africans than he realizes.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	FIC ERP (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	Fiction	05/12/2024	014232

The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the Africans than he realizes.

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