The End of Days
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Bernofsky, Susan (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-2192-4
- EAN: 9780811221924
- Produktnummer: 15899860
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
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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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