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From the winner of the 2024 Man Booker International Prize.
The heroine of the story “The Book of Words” by German author Jenny Erpenbeck, growing up in a new family, has no access to her past and only gradually begins to realize the terrible truth. Her personal story is a metaphor for entire generations deprived of their own historical memory as a result of violent political changes. Forced forgetting has always worked for political regimes that have formed “new people” without a past. But sooner or later, the muffled memory breaks through.