In The Book of Words, Jenny Erpenbeck captures with amazing virtuosity the inner life of a young girl who survives the totalitarian regime of a curiously unnamed South American country (most likely Argentina during its "dirty war"). Raised by parents whose real identity ends up shocking her, the girl comes of age in a country where gunshots are mistaken for blown tires, innocent citizens are dragged off buses, and tortured and disappeared friends and family return to visit her from the dead.
| ISBN: | 9780811217064 |
| Publication date: | 13th November 2007 |
| Author: | Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky |
| Publisher: | New Directions Books an imprint of New Directions |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 93 pages |
| Series: | New Directions Paperbook |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |