Things That Disappear c 1980 to c 1990 Barbara Hendricks has entered a

Barbara Hendricks has entered a running race

But everything changes the day Tao is asked to lead an expedition to the North

Einstein and Hemingway

Imprint: McGraw-Hill Contemporary

Things That Disappear c 1980 to c 1990 Barbara Hendricks has entered aThe 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