num_pages: 120
description: 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.Contents:- The Story of the Old Child- The Sun-Flecked Shadows of My Skull- Sand- Hale and Hallowed- Siberia- Light a Fire or Leave
language: English
title: The Old Child and Other Stories
titlecomplete: The Old Child and Other Stories
genres: Fiction, Contemporary, German Literature, Germany, Short Stories
ratings_count: 183
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
category: Susan Bernofsky
publisher: New Directions