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Series: New York Review Books
ISBN: 9781681377247
Pages: 240
Publication Date: March 14, 2023
Rombo
by Esther Kinsky, translated from the German by Caroline Schmidt
The displacement of material as a result of the earthquakes was enormous. New terrain was formed that reflects the force of the catastrophe and captures the fundamentals of natural history. But it is far more difficult to find expression for the human trauma, the experience of an abruptly shattered existence.
In Esther Kinsky’s novel Rombo, seven inhabitants of a remote mountain village discuss their lives, which have been deeply impacted by the earthquake that has left marks they are slowly learning to name. From the shared experience of fear and loss, the threads of individual memory soon unravel and become haunting and moving narratives of a deep trauma.