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When they found her, she was standing on the street with an
empty bucket in one hand. When they asked her what she was
called, where she lived, who her family was, her memory was
a blank. So now the girl has been deposited in an orphanage,
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she dresses in the same clothes as the others, and attends
the same lessons, but even here, she and they know that she doesn't
quite fit. Somewhere, within the girl's sturdy, slow-moving body,
beneath her watchful silence, the truth about her identity and her
past lies hidden, until - in spare, harsh prose - Erpenbeck draws it coolly out.
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