Let me count the geese
Michael Hofmann, 4 June 2026
The Effingers: A Berlin Saga
by Gabriele Tergit, translated by Sophie Duvernoy.
Pushkin, 864 pp., £20, November 2025,978 1 78227 951 8 Show More
by Gabriele Tergit, translated by Sophie Duvernoy.
Pushkin, 864 pp., £20, November 2025,
“... not Anthony Trollope, or Anthony Powell, or John Galsworthy, whose writing desk was purchased by Gabriele Tergit for the karmic storage of her manuscripts. These are books that have a strong narrative beat and keep you turning the pages by virtue of speed, coverage and pressure of events. The Effingers – which had the working title ‘The Eternal ... ”
