Geschichte vom alten Kind / Tand (5 selected stories)

Bys: Bernofsky, Susan and Erpenbeck, Jenny

Written in spare, highly concentrated language, "a sustained feat of verbal economy" (Die Zeit), the one novella and four stories in The Old Child go beyond the limits of the expected, the real. Dark, serious, often mystical, these marvelous fictions about women's lives provide glimpses into the minds of outcasts and eccentrics, at the same time bearing out Dostoevsky's comment that hope can be found so long as a man can see even a tiny view of the sky.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081121608X
• ISBN13: 9780811216081
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 125 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Like a Barbarian Warrior

Jenny Erpenpeck is so talented, she has the skills and the knowhow, and the theatrical panache, to make it really big in American letters just as she has captivated Eoreupe by the simple beauty of her voice. Like Isak Dinesen, she embodies a certain European allegorization of experience, so that we seem to be reading her through, I don't know, Alencon lace, with all of experience translated for us already by the deep mulch...