num_pages: 118
description: The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as they journey to a desolate wasteland beyond the limits of an unnamed city.
language: English
title: Absence
titlecomplete: Absence
genres: Fiction, German Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Philosophy
ratings_count: 191
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Bremer Literaturpreis
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux