- Widowers, Refugees, Fiction, Fiction, general
The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz.
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Grave, contemporary, earnest and prestige.
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Jenny Erpenbeck
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 304
- Publisher
- Granta Books, Knaus, Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781803512532
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