Things That Disappear - Reflections and Memories

In this fascinating collection, Jenny Erpenbeck meditates on the disappearance and impermanence of things. Whether recalling the demolition of familiar places, the loss of a friendship, or a change in social attitudes, Erpenbeck's sharp intelligence, eye for telling detail, and her nuanced perspective on her country's history and her own writing lifeimbue these short pieces with lasting power.

About the author

Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017). as well as Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections (2020). Her work is translated into over thirty languages.Kurt Beals is a translator and professor at the University of Richmond.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Erpenbeck, Erpenbeck Jenny
• Assisted by: Beals Kurt (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.11.2025
• EAN: 9781803512990
• ISBN: 978-1-80351-299-0
• No. of pages: 117
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Memoirs, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / German, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Anthologies