Go, Went, Gone
{{Short description|2015 novel by Jenny Erpenbeck}}
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| author = Jenny Erpenbeck
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Go, Went, Gone is a 2015 novel by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated into English by Susan Bernofsky in 2017.{{Cite news |last=Taylor |first=Catherine |date=2017-09-01 |title=Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck — no place like home |url=https://www.ft.com/content/ded53f96-8cc8-11e7-9580-c651950d3672 |access-date=2025-02-18 |work=Financial Times}}{{Cite news |last=Wood |first=James |author-link=James Wood (critic) |date=2017-09-18 |title=A Novelist’s Powerful Response to the Refugee Crisis |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/25/a-novelists-powerful-response-to-the-refugee-crisis |access-date=2025-02-18 |work=The New Yorker |language=en-US |issn=0028-792X}}{{Cite web |last=Rooney |first=Sally |author-link=Sally Rooney |date=2017-09-30 |title=Sally Rooney on Go, Went, Gone: Timely and compelling |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/sally-rooney-on-go-went-gone-timely-and-compelling-1.3229267 |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=The Irish Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Mukherjee |first=Neel |author-link=Neel Mukherjee (writer) |date=2017-10-17 |title=Go, Went, Gone: a profound, beautiful and deeply affecting novel of migration |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2017/10/go-went-gone-profound-beautiful-and-deeply-affecting-novel-migration |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=New Statesman |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Graham |first=Jane |date=2017-10-18 |title=Review: Go Went Gone, Jenny Erpenbeck; The Art of Failing, Anthony McGowan |url=https://www.bigissue.com/culture/books/review-go-went-gone-jenny-erpenbeck-art-failing-anthony-mcgowan/ |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=Big Issue |language=en-US}}
Reception
The Guardian reviewed the book, saying Erpenbeck's "new novel resonates with an unexpected simplicity that is profound, unsettling and subtle."{{Cite news|last=Battersby|first=Eileen|author-link=Eileen Battersby|date=2017-09-23|title=Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck review – humanising migration|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/23/go-went-gone-review-jenny-erpenbeck|access-date=2025-02-17|work=The Guardian|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}