Not a Novel
Collected Writings and Reflections
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Granta Books
Published:7th Oct '21
Should be back in stock very soon
A collection of intimate and explosive essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award-winning author of Go, Went Gone and The End of Days
Not a Novel is the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Moving and insightful, the pieces range from personal essays and literary criticism to reflections on Germany's history, interrogating life and politics, language and freedom, hope and despair. By turns both luminous and explosive, this collection shows one of the most acclaimed European writers reckoning with her country's divided past, and responding to the world today with intelligence and humanity.
The most profound, intelligent, humane, and important writer of our times... This is real literature: alive, vital, necessary, witty, beautiful, transformative -- Neel Mukherjee
Fearless, playful, incisive. Erpenbeck is unique -- Rachel Seiffert
One of Europe's most highly regarded writers, perpetually striving to create an artistic prism through which to interpret history's arc... -- Catherine Taylor * Financial Times *
The strength of this collection is in how it upends many of our perceptions of life in the GDR and what the fall of the Berlin Wall means to those who experienced it * New European *
A wonderfully gripping story that ventures fearlessly into some pretty dark family secrets to tell the story of a Europe you won't find in conventional history books * New European *
ISBN: 9781783786114
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 12mm
Weight: 151g
208 pages