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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
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... The fabulous English translation of Käsebier Takes Berlin, like that of The Effingers, is by Sophie Duvernoy: the former shows off her liveliness, the latter her flexibility and stamina. After the success of Tergit’s first novel, her publisher wanted another. A good part of the reading and book-buying public was Jewish, Ernst Rowohlt cynically ...

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