The novel’s protagonist is a retired University professor of Classical Philology named Richard, a man who has lived alone in Berlin since the death of his wife. It has been translated into English by Susan Bernofsky. Sally Rooney has called it ‘vital’, and The Guardian ‘profound’. Go, Went, Gone was also longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. I was therefore looking forward to dipping into this novel, which is the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the English PEN Award. I have read all of her other books which have been translated into English thus far, and find them all wonderfully strange, and highly memorable. Go, Went, Gone by German author Jenny Erpenbeck was my book club’s choice for January.
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