The End of Days

by Jenny Erpenbeck

Book 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. How could it all have gone differently?--the narrator asks in the intermezzos. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811225135
• ISBN13: 9780811225137
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"