The end of days / Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated by German by Susan Bernofsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967-

Contributor:

Bernofsky, Susan, translator.

Standardized Title:

Aller Tage abend. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Death--Fiction.

Death.

History.

Germany.

Germany--History--20th century--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

239 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Books, 2014.

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.

ISBN:

9780811221924

081122192X

OCLC:

870098340