Things That Disappear: Reflections and Memories by Jenny Erpenbeck #literature National Trust Books

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Things That Disappear: Reflections and Memories by Jenny Erpenbeck #literature National Trust BooksThe Palace of the Republic, that once housed the East German parliament, is demolished. A grandmother's laughter passes from life into memory. Furniture that once made a home is taken to the tip. A friendship drops into silence. Old ways are erased by the new. In this fascinating collection of essays, most of them written for her column in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jenny Erpenbeck meditates, with a sense of both deep melancholy and wry