Ebook {Epub PDF} The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck

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/5(). The End of Days is a compelling reminder that worrying about the unknowable will do nothing to delay the inevitable. The End of Days, by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky, Portobello Estimated Reading Time: 4 mins.  · In celebrated German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck’s latest work, The End of Days, we see fate and chance conspire in equal measure to push lives along their unpredictable but inevitably entropic journeys towards oblivion. After his mother’s death, a young boy asks, “I’m basically sharing my entire life .

Jenny Erpenbeck's Aller Tage Abend (The End of Days) is an excellent novel spanning the majority of the twentieth century. We start off in Galicia, now the Poland-Ukraine border region, but at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where a couple are mourning the death of their young daughter. 9 Responses to The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck. booker talk. November 4, at pm. I can't help thinking this idea of a person who died, but didn't is the same concept as Kate Atkinson's Life After Life. I really didn't care for that but Erpenbeck's book sounds much more thought provoking. T he writing of Jenny Erpenbeck has a tendency to sneak up on you rather than trumpet its arrival. The first page of her new book Not a Novel starts with an understated polemic. "There is.

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 End of Days is a compelling reminder that worrying about the unknowable will do nothing to delay the inevitable. The End of Days, by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky, Portobello. Overview. 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.