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Things that disappear / Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated from the German by Kurt Beals.
Van Pelt Library PT2665.R59 D5613 2025
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection Snack PT2665.R59 D5613 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967- Author.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 1647.
- New Directions paperbook ; 1647
- Standardized Title:
- Dinge, die verschwinden. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/c08935a2-3cf3-73d0-11de-ee4e4b182b16
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Lost articles.
- Loss (Psychology).
- Germany.
- German essays.
- Genre:
- Essays
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 71 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2025.
- Summary:
- "The bestselling and award-winning German author Jenny Erpenbeck has gained international praise for her novels including Visitation, Kairos, and Go, Went, Gone. Things That Disappear is an exciting collection of interlinked miniature prose pieces that grapple with the phenomenon of disappearance on scales both large and small. The things that disappear in these pages range from everyday objects such as socks and cheese to close friends and the social norms of common courtesy, to sites and objects resonant with East German history, such as the Palace of the Republic or the lines of sight now blocked by new construction in Berlin. Erpenbeck asks: "Is there a perpetrator who makes things that I know and cherish disappear?" These things disap- pear, and yet do they really? Do they remain in our memories more fully than if they continued to exist? Translated beautifully by Kurt Beals, Things That Disappear follows on the heels of Erpenbeck's Booker Prize-winning novel Kairos and offers a window into a renowned writer's sense of the past, and of her own self as a writer"-- Provided by publisher.
- "'Things that disappear' is an exciting collection of interlinked miniature prose pieces that grapple with the phenomenon of disappearance, from everyday objects like socks, to close friends and the social norms of common courtesy, to East German sites like the Palace of the Republic or the Berlin sightlines now blocked by the new construction. Erpenbeck asks, 'Is there a perpetrator who makes things that I know and cherish disappear?' These things disappear, and yet do they really? Do they remain in our memories more fully than if they continued to exist? Beautifully translated by Kurt Beals, 'Things that disappear' offers a window into the Booker Prize-winning writer's sense of the past and of her own self as a writer"--Page 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- "A New Directions paperbook original"
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Shober Family Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780811238113
- 0811238113
- OCLC:
- 1499995718
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