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The End of Days

The End of Days

Erpenbeck, Jenny
Bernofsky, Susan

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ISBN10: 081122192X
ISBN13: 9780811221924
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Nov 11 2014
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.69 Depth: 8.53
Language: English
The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five books, each leading to a different death of an unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos between. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter, the same girl grows up in Vienna, but her strange relationship with a boy leads to another death. In the next scenario, she survives adolescence and moves to Russia with her husband. Both are dedicated Communists, but our heroine is sent to a labor camp. She is spared in the next chapter with the help of someone's intervention and returns to Berlin to become a respected writer. . . .

The End of Days is a brilliant novel of contingency and fate. A novel of incredible breadth, yet amazing concision, The End of Days offers a unique overview of German and German-Jewish history by one of the finest, most exciting authors alive (Michael Faber).

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