by Jenny Erpenbeck (Author), Susan Bernofsky (Translator)
A child is found standing on the street with an empty bucket in her hand and no memory of her name, her family or her past. Elsewhere, a girl grows up surrounded by familiar faces - a wet nurse, a piano teacher, a gardener, a best friend and a distant mother - but soon finds them slipping mysteriously from her life. In the company of these girls, we are compelled to tread the uncertain and spiky terrain of memory, where words are dropped like clues to reveal what has been hidden, forgotten or erased.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 01 Dec 2008
ISBN 10: 1846270588
ISBN 13: 9781846270581
Book Overview: 'I haven't read anything this good - this bracing, unflinching and alive - for a long time' Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love