He's unsure how to dress, how to think, and how to spend his time. Richard, the narrator of Jenny Erpenbeck's novel Go, Went, Gone, is a recently retired classics professor in Berlin who, without fully intending to, finds himself in the center of this geo-political upheaval.Īt the book's outset, Richard is trying to adjust to retirement. Europe braced itself to absorb millions of people, and by the end of 2015, Germany alone hosted a million refugees from many countries. That photo was published in September 2015, at the peak of the global refugee crisis (see ' Beyond the Book'). Many of us probably remember the photograph of little Aylan Kurdi, a Syrian toddler, washed ashore on a beach in Turkey. Go, Went, Gone is a passionate contribution to the debate on race, privilege and nationality and a beautifully written examination of an ageing man's quest to find meaning in his life.
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