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The Book of Words

Paperback • 2007 • English

The Book of Words

By Jenny Erpenbeck

1 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

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About the book

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 girl comes of age in a country where gunshots are mistaken for blown tires, innocent citizens are dragged off buses, and tortured and disappeared friends and family return to visit her from the dead.

Narrative theme: Politics
Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration
Thriller: serial killers

Book details

ISBN

9780811217064

Publisher

New Directions Publishing

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

The Book of Words

Format

Paperback

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