Book of words

About the book Jenny Erpenbeck manages a linguistic balance that harmonizes with horror and beauty and separates them with a thin line, so they merge together that the unspoken meanings are written between the lines. The author Jenny Erpenbeck was born in Berlin in 1967, and today lives as a free writer and independent director also in Berlin. Her first novel "An Old Child’s Story" achieved great success, and in 2001 she was followed by a collection of stories. Both books received awards and grants and were translated into eleven languages. "Whenever Jenny Erpenbeck’s insightful gaze towards matters is directed, it changes in a moment, and her surface melts. From beneath it, it appears how the characters move as if they are stirring from under the skin." - Frankfurt General Newspaper. Book information: Author: Jenny Erpenbeck Translation: Sundus Al-Hussein Year of publication: 2020 Publisher: Saba Page Number: 112