Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans
Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer
Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five "books," each leading
to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How
could it all have gone differently?-the narrator asks in the
intermezzos. 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 after World War I, but a pact she
makes with a young man leads to a second death. In the next
scenario, she survives adolescence and moves to Russia with her
husband. Both are dedicated Communists, yet our heroine ends up in
a labor camp. But her fate does not end there.... A novel of
incredible breadth and amazing concision, The End of Days offers a
unique overview of the twentieth century.
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