Old Child and the Book of Words by Jenny ErpenbeckRequirements: .ePUB reader, 238.7kBOverview: A child is found standing on the street with an empty bucket in her hand and no memory of her name, her family or her past. Elsewhere, a girl grows up surrounded by familiar faces – a wet nurse, a piano teacher, […]
Kairos by Jenny ErpenbeckRequirements: .MP3 reader, 185MBOverview: [thanks to @FridaKahlo] Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates. Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful […]
Kairos by Jenny ErpenbeckRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.5MB | RetailOverview: Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But […]
Visitation by Jenny ErpenbeckRequirements: .MP3 reader, 131.9 MBOverview: A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors. A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck’s grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing over one hundred years […]
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny ErpenbeckRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.5 MBOverview: 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 […]