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Le New York Times dévoile les meilleurs 100 titres de l’année

Plusieurs titres parmi nos représentations ont été sélectionnés par le New York Times :

ASYMMETRY de Lisa Halliday (droits acquis par Gallimard)

ETERNAL LIFE de Dara Horn (droits disponibles)

FRIDAY BLACK de Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (droits acquis par Albin Michel/ Terres d’Amérique)

GEHEN GING GEGANGEN de Jenny Erpenbeck (droits disponibles)

IMPROVEMENT de Joan Silber (droits disponibles)

A PRINCESS IN THEORY de Alyssa Cole (droits disponibles)

ALI: A LIFE de Jonathan Eig (droits acquis par Marabout)

DEAD GIRLS d’Alice Bolin (droits disponibles)

IN PIECES de Sally Field (droits disponibles)

THE FIFTH RISK de Michael Lewis (droits disponibles)

INTO THE RAGING SEA de Rachel Slade (droits disponibles)

WHY COMICS? de Hillary Chute (droits acquis par Urban Comics)

Le nouveau roman de Jenny Erpenbeck dans la dernière sélection du Deutscher Buchpreis

GEHEN, GING, GEGANGEN figure parmi les six titres de la shortlist du Deutscher Buchpreis, qui sera décerné le 12 octobre prochain.

Son précédent roman, ALLER TAGE ABEND, avait remporté le dernier Indipendent Foreign Fiction Prize.

A deeply humane novel, coming exactly at the right time” DeutschlandRadio Kultur

GEHEN, GING, GEGANGEN
(Go, Went, Gone)
by Jenny Erpenbeck
Knaus, August 2015

How can you bear the passing of time when you are forced to do nothing? How can you cope with losing loved ones? Who passes on your legacy? Richard, a retired professor, has a chance encounter with asylum seekers in the middle of Berlin, and this gives him the idea of searching for answers to his questions where no one else would look: among those young refugees from Africa who have been stranded in Berlin and condemned to wait for years. And suddenly this world looks at him, the man living in Old Europe, and might well know better than he himself who he really is.
In her inimitable way, Jenny Erpenbeck has told a story of looking the other way and taking a look, of death and war, of perpetual waiting and of everything that is lying hidden beneath the surface.

Jenny Erpenbeck was born in 1967. After graduating from high school she first trained as a bookbinder before going on to study theatre science and music stage direction. While working as an opera director she debuted with her short novel Story of the Old Child, which was followed by other literary publications, including novels, short stories and stage plays. Her novel The End of Days was enthusiastically received by both the public and press alike and has been awarded several prizes, including the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2015.