The book is currently out of stock
More about the book
Exploring themes of fate and contingency, the narrative follows an unnamed woman through five distinct lives, each culminating in a different death. Starting in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire, her journey spans from childhood tragedy in Vienna to a tumultuous marriage in Russia, leading to her imprisonment in a labor camp. In another scenario, she escapes and returns to Berlin as a celebrated writer. Jenny Erpenbeck's work provides a profound reflection on the intersections of personal and historical events within German and German-Jewish history.
Book purchase
The End of Days, Jenny Erpenbeck
- Language
- Released
- 2014
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (Hardcover)
We’ll email you as soon as we track it down.
Payment methods
We’re missing your review here.
- Title
- The End of Days
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jenny Erpenbeck
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN13
- 9780811221924
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Family, Women, Contemporary Fiction, German Literature, Germany, Wars, 20th century, Death, Realistic Fiction, Fate, Mothers, Daughters, Ukraine
- First published
- 2012
- Original title
- Aller Tage Abend
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Exploring themes of fate and contingency, the narrative follows an unnamed woman through five distinct lives, each culminating in a different death. Starting in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire, her journey spans from childhood tragedy in Vienna to a tumultuous marriage in Russia, leading to her imprisonment in a labor camp. In another scenario, she escapes and returns to Berlin as a celebrated writer. Jenny Erpenbeck's work provides a profound reflection on the intersections of personal and historical events within German and German-Jewish history.