The End of Days

Jenny Erpenbeck (Y)

The End of Days
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Granta Books
Country
United Kingdom
Published
24 June 2015
Pages
192
ISBN
9781846275159

The End of Days

Jenny Erpenbeck (Y)

Winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman.  She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle.  Or perhaps not? She lives to become as an adult and dies beloved. Or dies betrayed. Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured. Or she is forgotten by everyone.

Moving from a small Galician town at the turn of the century, through pre-war Vienna and Stalin’s Moscow to present-day Berlin, Jenny Erpenbeck homes in on the moments when life follows a particular branch and ‘fate’ suddenly emerges from the sly interplay between history, character and pure chance.

The End of Days is a novel that pulls apart the threads of destiny and allows us to see the present and the past anew.

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