Foreign Rights

 
Rights:
World Rights Eichborn

Domestic:
Paperback edition: btb (A Division of Random House Germany)
Bookclub edition: Büchergilde Gutenberg, Der Club

Translations:
Arabian: Dar Merit
Bulgarian: SONM Publishers
Danish: Turbine Forlaget
Dutch: Van Gennep - published in 2009
English: New Directions (US) - published 2010
English: Portobello Books (UK) - published in 2010
Finnish: Avain Publishers
French: Actes Sud - published in 2009
Greek: Indiktos
Hebrew: Keter, published in 2011
Hungarian: L'Harmattan Könyvkiadó
Italian: Zandonai Emanuela Editore
Korean: Eulyoo - published in 2010
Polish: W.A.B. - published in 2010
Romanian: Humanitas - published in 2010
Serbian: Geopoetika - published in 2009
Spanish: Destino
Swedish: Albert Bonniers - published in 2010
Turkish: Kitap Yayinevi (Helikopter)
Usbek: Nihol

Jenny Erpenbeck

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Heimito von Doderer Literature Award 2008 +++
Solothurn Literature Award 2008 +++
Hertha König Literature Award 2008 +++
LiteraTour Nord Award 2009 +++


This novel reaches far into the German past and is an immensely powerful literary exploration.

A house on a lake in Brandenburg is the central locale of twelve biographies, stories and destinies from the Twenties until today. The building and its inhabitants experience the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, World War II and its end, the GDR, reunification and the period since then. Jenny Erpenbeck gives every biography a literary form of its own, and every character develops a drama, tragedy and happiness of its own. Together, they form a kind of literary memory of the last century in a fiction that offers compelling phrases and images, and tears open old wounds, disturbs, thrills, unsettles and reconciles. It is hard to say what the secret of these stories is and where their brilliance, impact and eminent drama come from. One thing is certain: with this novel, Jenny Erpenbeck has created her masterpiece.