![]() ![]() Exquisitely translated by Susan Bernofsky, 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. ![]() 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. William the Conqueror’s 1066 coronation occurred just months after the Battle of Hastings at a tense time. ![]() ![]() I do think it is stretching it to mention 'been' as the. British coronations of yesteryear have not always gone smoothly. marcher v Business is going well for the shopkeeper. Jai regardé lheure et vu que je devais partir. passer v (pour le temps, par exemple) partir v I looked at the time and saw I had to go. The meaning might be close, but different. go verb (went, gone) aller v I go to work every day. 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. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. It lists two participles of the verb 'to go' : been and gone. 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. Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, “one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation” ( The Millions). ![]()
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