Earwitness: Fifty Characters
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Earwitness collects fifty short portraits of people the author once heard, watched or remembered, each drawn in only a few pages. Rather than building plots, these sketches capture a single figure at a time through speech, habits and gestures, so that each character comes into focus quickly and then gives way to the next. Some are comic, some unsettling, and many suggest a larger world of rumor, vanity and fear beneath everyday conversation. Written in German, the collection moves between voices from many walks of life and offers a kind of close listening to the people around the writer.
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