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WörterbuchJenny Erpenbeck
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Wörterbuch

115 pagesFirst published 20043 editions · 2 languages
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In an unnamed Latin American country under an unblinking sun, an unnamed girl tries to find words for the things that make up her life. Father and mother. Ball. Car. But, in the world she inhabits, words do not mean what they say; they have "silent halves... dragging them down like lead weights". The real story is the one "that goes on to the right and the left and above and below the edges of the picture". (The Independent)

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Editions

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
PaperbackNew Directions2007969780811217064
EditionPortobello20071529781846270574
Edition · gerEichborn Berlin20041159783821807423
German literatureFiction, generalTotalitarianismFictionGerman fictionTranslations into English