Bibliograph

The end of days, Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated by Susan Bernofsky

Type

Label

The end of days, Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated by Susan Bernofsky

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The end of days

Oclc number

870098340

Responsibility statement

Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated by Susan Bernofsky

Series statement

New Directions paperbook, NDP1325

Summary

Consists essentially of five "books," each of which leads to a different death for 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

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