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Jenny Erpenbeck

Jenny Erpenbeck, born in East Berlin in 1967, is the author of several works of fiction including The Book of Words; The Old Child; Visitation; The End of Days; Go, Went, Gone; and Kairos, recently published in German and forthcoming in English in 2023. These works of fiction, along with her collection of essays, Not a Novel, have been published in the United States by New Directions and in the United Kingdom by Granta. For her works, translated into thirty languages, she has won prizes including the Thomas Mann Prize (Germany), the Premio Strega (Italy), the Lee Hochul Prize (South Korea) and the International Booker. She lives with her family in Berlin. Erpenbeck’s prose was published in HEAT Series 3.

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Things That Disappear

HEAT Series 3 Number 5
2022

The farewells are what I remember. How thin and white R. looked beneath his shock of hair when I said goodbye to him for the last time and he nodded to me without lifting his head from the pillow, just briefly closing his eyes. How I didn’t go back to his bed, but simply closed the door behind me. The next day I had to pick up his things from the hospital, including the razor I’d charged for him the day before. The razor was charged, but R. was dead.

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