Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, -one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation- (The Millions). The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went,...