Go, Went, Gone
New York : New Directions Books, 2017.
Format: Book
Description: 286 pages ; 20 cm
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. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the Africans than he realizes.
ISBN:
9780811225946
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Erpenbeck | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |