The Old Child & Other Stories
Contributors: Susan Bernofsky (Translator)
Publisher: New Directions
Published: September 27, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780811216081
Subjects: Short stories; German Novel And Short Story; Fiction; Fiction - General; Short Stories (single author); General; Fiction / General
Description: "The one novella and four stories in The Old Child go beyond the limits of the expected, the real. Somber, nostalgic and often mystical, these marvelous fictions provide glimpses into the minds of outcasts and eccentrics. The parable-like novella The Old Child describes a girl's mind seemingly blank: picked up off the street with no discoverable past, she is brought to a children's home where she finds she can "succeed by her silence." In another story, "Siberia," the heroine smuggled out of a Russian camp vigorously re-establishes herself in her old home. In "Hale and Hallowed," a woman pays a surprise nighttime visit to her friend with whom she shared a hospital room when their two sons were born."--Jacket.