Go, Went, Gone

Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781846276200.

The new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015. Richard has spent his life as a professor at the university, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and his ideas about how society works begin to change. When he visits a tent city set up by African asylum seekers, he finds new friends and a new purpose, but the laws of his land appear designed to prevent the people he has connected with from ever finding a home alongside him. In this radical, exquisite novel, Jenny Erpenbeck turns her attention to the contemporary refugee crisis and our responsibility for its creation.