Go, Went, Gone
By - Erpenbeck, Jenny , Bernofsky, Susan
Floor
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Floor 3
ISBN 10 - 1846276225
ISBN 13 - 9781846276224
Book Status
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1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject
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Berlin (Germany) Fiction
Shelf No
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10
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833.92 ERP
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286 pages ; 20 cm.
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 inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. 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