The Book of Words (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811217064)

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.

Author: Jenny Erpenbeck
ISBN-10: 081121706X
ISBN-13: 9780811217064
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2007
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.39w x 0.32d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/15/2007 pg. 40