The End of Days - Hardcover

Erpenbeck, Jenny

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081122192X ISBN 13: 9780811221924

Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

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).

Biografía del autor:

Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. New Directions publishes her books The Old Child & Other Stories, The Book of Words, and Visitation, which NPR called "a story of the century as seen by the objects we've known and lost along the way."

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• Verlag: NEW DIRECTIONS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 081122192X
• ISBN 13: 9780811221924
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256