Jenny Erpenbeck

Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. New Directions publishes her books The Old Child & Other Stories, The Book of Words, and Visitation, which NPR called "a story of the century as seen by the objects we've known and lost along the way."

Jenny Erpenbeck

Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. New Directions publishes her books The Old Child & Other Stories, The Book of Words, and Visitation, which NPR called "a story of the century as seen by the objects we've known and lost along the way."

Books by Jenny Erpenbeck

  • Visitation

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky

    Paperback, 2017

    A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors.
  • Go, Went, Gone

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky

    Paperback, 2017

    New York Times Notable Book 2018;Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2018; Lois Roth Award Winner

    An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: “Erpenbeck will get under your skin”...

  • Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Kurt Beals

    Paperback, 2020

    A collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life, literature, and politics by the renowned German writer, Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Visitation

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky

    E Book, 2010

    A bestseller in Germany, Visitation has established Jenny Erpenbeck as one of Europe’s most significant contemporary authors.
  • Go, Went, Gone

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky

    E Book, 2017

    New York Times Notable Book 2018;Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2018; Lois Roth Award Winner

    An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: “Erpenbeck will get under your skin”...

  • Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Kurt Beals

    E Book, 2020

    A collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life, literature, and politics by the renowned German writer, Jenny Erpenbeck
  • Kairos

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann

    Hardback, 2023

    Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates
  • Kairos

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann

    E Book

    Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated new novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates
  • Kairos

    Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2024

    Now in paperback, Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is a dramatic love story that unfolds as the GDR implodes“an intimate account of obsessive, transgressive passion” (Claire Messud, Harper’s)