To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. I do think it is stretching it to mention 'been' as the. The meaning might be close, but different. Even though it might be argued that there is some similarity in the sense, the reality is that to go is one verb, to be, is another one. quest to find meaning in his life, Go, Went, Gone showcases one of the great contemporary European writers at the height of her powers-Dust jacket. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. It lists two participles of the verb 'to go' : been and gone. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. ‘Go, Went, Gone’ addresses one of the most pivotal issues of our time, facing it head-on in a voice that is both nostalgic and frightening.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ‘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. GO, WENT, GONE By Jenny Erpenbeck Translated by Susan Bernofsky 286 pp. Hesitantly, getting to know the new arrivals, Richard finds his life changing, as he begins to question his own sense of belonging in a city that once divided its citizens into them and us.

Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. In this beautiful novel, translated from the German, Richard is a retired and widowed Classics professor whose narrow existence is forever.

His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe’s biggest issue. ‘Go, Went, Gone’ is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck.

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