Book
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- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
Go, went, gone
Call Number
- FICTION ERPE (CEN)
Publication Information
New York : New Directions, 2017.
Physical Description
286 pages ; 20 cm
Summary
Richard is a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the Africans than he realizes.