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ISBN-10: 081121608X
ISBN-13: 9780811216081
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 10/17/2005
Dimensions: 7.96" L, 5.24" W, 0.41" H

The Old Child: & Other Stories

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Overview

Written in spare, highly concentrated language, “a sustained feat of verbal economy” (Die Zeit), the one novella and four stories in The Old Child go beyond the limits of the expected, the real. Dark, serious, often mystical, these marvelous fictions about women’s lives provide glimpses into the minds of outcasts and eccentrics, at the same time bearing out Dostoevsky’s comment that hope can be found so long as a man can see even a tiny view of the sky.

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Erpenbeck's writing is so concentrated, so dense, that a slim volume of stories packs the weight of the world.–Ira Panic
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Details

ISBN-10: 081121608X
ISBN-13: 9780811216081
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 10/17/2005
Dimensions: 7.96" L, 5.24" W, 0.41" H
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