Jenny Erpenbeck

The Old Child & Other Stories introduces in English one of Germany’s most original and brilliant young authors, Jenny Erpenbeck. 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, …

I en sproglig balanceakt mellem drøm og virkelighed og mellem gru og skønhed fortælles om en ung pige, der vokser op i en ikke nærmere defineret diktaturstat, og hvis skæbne bliver en parabel om et terrorstyres fald og dets følger

Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous …