Francesca Carington
No Country for Young Men
Go, Went, Gone
By Jenny Erpenbeck (Translated by Susan Bernofsky)
Portobello Books 286pp £14.99 order from our bookshop
‘We become visible’ reads a placard held by ten African refugees on hunger strike in Berlin’s Alexanderplatz. Jenny Erpenbeck, who won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for her last novel, The End of Days, wrote Go, Went, Gone in 2015, when the refugee crisis dominated newspaper headlines and political debate across Europe. That was the year when displaced people from war-torn northern Africa and the Middle East became visible. Two years later, however, they have started to disappear from the public mind.
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