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      The Book of Words

      by Jenny Erpenbeck
      Published
      Dec 2007
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      112
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      A searing novella about coming of age in a land of tyranny, by one of Germany's most brilliant young authors.

      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.

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      Dec 2007 New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN13 9780811217064 ISBN10 081121706X
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      Dec 2007 Portobello Books ISBN13 9781846270574 ISBN10 184627057X
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      May 2024 New Directions Publishing Corporation ISBN13 9780811239042 ISBN10 0811239047
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