Jenny Erpenbeck writes German literary fiction about memory, displacement, political systems and people whose lives are reshaped by borders. Visitation follows a house beside a Brandenburg lake through successive owners and regimes, allowing twentieth-century German history to emerge through one piece of land. The End of Days imagines several possible deaths and lives for the same woman across different periods, while Go, Went, Gone follows a retired professor who becomes involved with African asylum seekers in Berlin. Kairos centres on a destructive relationship in the final years of East Germany. Erpenbeck's fiction is compressed, structurally inventive and historically layered. It fits contemporary German literature, migration fiction and literary historical fiction. Read more Less
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