![]() ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() Curiosity turns into compassion and an inner transformation as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, “one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation” (The Millions). New York Times Notable Book 2018 Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2018 Go, Went, Gone Fiction ![]()
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