Jenny Erpenbeck
‘Oppressive, charming, scary… Jenny Erpenbeck is the rising star of the German literary scene.’
Cosmopolitan
Jenny Erpenbeck born in East Berlin in 1967. She has worked on opera and musical productions and her fiction has been translated into 13 languages worldwide.
Autho photo © Katharina Behling
In order to research The Old Child, Erpenbeck went back to school, pretending to be 17, when she actually was 27. None of her classmates discovered her true age. After 3 weeks, she left with lots of material for the book: concerning situations you get in if you are lying all the time about your age; if you have to maintain silence about experiences you've already had; if you have to hide your former life completely and have to change your “old” character into the character of a much younger person.
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The Book of Words (First Hardback Edition)
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The Old Child (First Hardback Edition)
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The Old Child & The Book of Words (First Hardback Edition)
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