{"product_id":"erpenbeck-jenny-things-that-disappear","title":"Erpenbeck, Jenny - Things That Disappear","description":"From the 2024 winner of the International Booker\nPrize, a collection of short essays on the places, people,\nrituals and objects that slip into the realm of memory.\nThe Palace of the Republic, that once housed the East German parliament, is\ndemolished. A grandmother's laughter passes from life into memory. Furniture\nthat once made a home is taken to the tip. A friendship drops into silence.\nOld ways are erased by the new.\nIn this fascinating collection of essays, most of them written for her column in\nthe Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Jenny Erpenbeck meditates, with a sense\nof both deep melancholy and wry humour, on the disappearance and impermanence\nof things. Whether recalling the shop that used to darn tights in the\ndays before you could just buy a new pair, reflecting on changing social attitudes,\nor considering the mysterious vanishing of a piece of cheese from her\nfridge, Jenny Erpenbeck's sharp intelligence, eye for telling detail, and her nuanced\nperspective on her country's past and present imbue these brief pieces\nwith lasting power.","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback Book","offer_id":50585967821078,"sku":"RMX-56949","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/6711c9e81a65450d27b7733b11c7ce87.jpg?v=1759933392","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/erpenbeck-jenny-things-that-disappear","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}