Things That Disappear

Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017). as well as Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections (2020). In 2024, her novel Kairos was awarded the International Booker Prize. Her work is translated into over thirty languages. Kurt Beals is a translator and professor at the University of Richmond.