Not a Novel

A collection of intimate essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from this award-winning author. Drawing from her 25 years of writing, we journey through the works and subjects that have inspired and influenced her. Here we see one of the most searching of European writers reckoning with her country's divided past in all its complexity and responding to the world today.

Autorentext
Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017). as well as Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections (2020). Her work is translated into over thirty languages.

Klappentext

Not a Novel is the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Moving and insightful, the pieces range from personal essays and literary criticism to reflections on Germany's history, interrogating life and politics, language and freedom, hope and despair. By turns both luminous and explosive, this collection shows one of the most acclaimed European writers reckoning with her country's divided past, and responding to the world today with intelligence and humanity.