Title: Gehen, ging, gegangen
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.
Subjects: Widowers, Refugees, Fiction, Fiction, general, Berlin (germany), fiction, New York Times reviewed, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological, Refugees -- Europe -- Fiction, Widowers -- Fiction, Berlin (Germany) -- Fiction, Africans, Social conditions, Emigration and immigration, Social aspects
Places: Europe, Berlin (Germany)