The Book of Words

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 12/01/2007
ISBN: 9780811217064
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.39w x 0.32d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/15/2007 pg. 40