The Old Child: & Other Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811216081)

Written in spare, highly concentrated language, "a sustained feat of verbal economy" (Die Zeit), the one novella and four stories in The Old Child go beyond the limits of the expected, the real. Dark, serious, often mystical, these marvelous fictions about women's lives provide glimpses into the minds of outcasts and eccentrics, at the same time bearing out Dostoevsky's comment that hope can be found so long as a man can see even a tiny view of the sky.

Author: Susan Bernofsky, Jenny Erpenbeck
ISBN-10: 081121608X
ISBN-13: 9780811216081
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 10/17/2005
Pages: 125
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.24w x 0.41d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/22/2005 pg. 38