Ebook {Epub PDF} The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck

 · Jenny Erpenbeck: The Old Child / The Book of Words. I bought this book early in the year, thrilled to see something out of the ordinary in one of those titchy unpromising shopping-centre branches of Waterstone’www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.  · The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck. Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky. In The Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures with amazing virtuosity the inner life of a young girl who survives the totalitarian regime of a curiously unnamed South American country (most likely Argentina during its “dirty war”). Raised by parents whose real identity ends up shocking her, the Estimated Reading Time: 50 secs.  · The Book of Words. by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky. pp, Portobello, £ Light. by Eva Figes. pp, Pallas Athene, £ What, finally, makes a Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

BOOK REVIEW. The depth of meaning to be found within Jenny Erpenbeck's The Book of Words, the latter story referenced in the synopsis for this omnibus, should not be extrapolated from its page www.doorway.ru dense little novella is a challenging read, but one I am glad I persisted with. Jenny Erpenbeck is fixated on the terrors of childhood. The title piece of her debut collection, The Old Child Other Stories, is the tale of a nameless orphan found on the street and brought to a boarding school, where she lives in paralyzing fear of her classmates."Around me, everything is awhirl," she says. Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky (Translator) · Rating details · ratings · 55 reviews. In The Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures with amazing virtuosity the inner life of a young girl who survives the totalitarian regime of a curiously unnamed South American country (most likely Argentina during its "dirty war").

Buy The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $ Shop now. Her second short novel The Book of Words, despite the knowingly opaque title, ratchets up the pressure in this gratifyingly claustrophobic masterpiece. From the first, the anonymous narrator wrestles with her childhood memories, picking and piecing with cryptic method to `seize memory like a knife and turn it against itself, stabbing memory with memory. The Book of Words is, I think, the author's first novel. It's a very short book, 90 pages, and, perhaps intentionally, it's difficult to get one's footing. Experimental in certain ways, it's set in an unnamed South American country, the narrator, a girl from childhood to age 17, is also unnamed, as is everyone else.