The Book of Words

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.

Author: Jenny Erpenbeck
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 12/01/2007
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.39w x 0.32d
ISBN13: 9780811217064
ISBN10: 081121706X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | Magical Realism