![]() ![]() desensitizationĮrpenbeck shows us the European refugee crisis through the eyes of Richard, a recently retired Classics professor. The refugees demand what we all want: a sense of dignity and some purpose to our days. Her novel focuses on a group of African refugees who’ve organized a protest from their tent camp in Berlin. Erpenbeck didn’t win the latter but she should have. It won the English PEN Translates award and a place on the long list of the Man Booker International prize. The English translation came out last year. Go, Went, Gone was published in Germany the same year Kurdi drowned. Some predicted that Kurdi’s death would prove to be a turning point. Calls for a permanent solution to the European refugee crisis grew loud. In the days and weeks following Kurdi’s death, donations to the Swedish Red Cross spiked. The worldwide spasm of grief and outrage. The little refugee lying face down in the surf. ![]() Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck forced me to relive that event. 4 JULY 2018 | KAREN KAO #bookstagram Photo credit: 2 September 2015, 3 year old Alan Kurdi drowned in the Mediterranean Ocean. ![]()
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