The Book of Words

By Jenny Erpenbeck

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081121706X
• ISBN13: 9780811217064
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.0"