Go, Went, Gone

Paperback, 286 pages

English language

Published Nov. 9, 2017

ISBN:
978-0-8112-2594-6
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OCLC Number:
975847010

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The novel tells the tale of Richard, 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.

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Subjects

  • Widowers
  • Refugees
  • Fiction

Places

  • Europe
  • Berlin (Germany)