Gehen, ging, gegangen
About this book
The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. 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.
Subjects
- africans
- berlin (germany) -- fiction
- berlin (germany), fiction
- emigration and immigration
- fiction
- fiction, general
- fiction / literary
- fiction / psychological
- new york times reviewed
- refugees
- refugees -- europe -- fiction
- social aspects
- social conditions
- widowers
- widowers -- fiction