Jenny Erpenbeck

An epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. She studied theater at the Humboldt University in Berlin and directed operas in the nineties. She is also author of such books as The Old Child & Other Stories, The Book of Words, and The End of Days.

Jenny Erpenbeck

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)