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Looking back at a vanished country with a sense of longing and loss We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Vanessa Francesca Normal text size Jenny Erpenbeck’s Not A Novel shows a true artisan of the page and stage pausing to deliver her private meditations on some public artworks that stand as monuments to everything innovative, compassionate, and daring about European literature. Erpenbeck is well situated for the task. Born into a family of writers and translators in East Berlin, Erpenbeck speaks of herself as a virtual refugee from an imagined community that no longer exists. ....