Go, went, gone
By: Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated by Susan Bernofsky
Contributors: Bernofsky, Susan, translator
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780811225946
Subjects: Widowers; Refugees; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: Translated from the German.

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