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Winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle. Or... Read More
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The End of Days

From the author of Kairos, winner of the International Booker Prize: a story of the twentieth century told through the various lives of one woman - an intoxicating masterpiece of a novel about character, time and history.

From the author of Kairos, winner of the International Booker Prize: a story of the twentieth century told through the various lives of one woman - an intoxicating masterpiece of a novel about character, time and history.

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Winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize

From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle. Or perhaps not? She lives to become an adult and dies beloved. Or dies betrayed. Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured. Or she is forgotten by everyone.

Moving from a small Galician town at the turn of the century, through pre-war Vienna and Stalin's Moscow to present-day Berlin, Jenny Erpenbeck homes in on the moments when life follows a particular branch and 'fate' suddenly emerges from the sly interplay between history, character, and pure chance.

The End of Days is a novel that pulls apart the threads of destiny and allows us to see the present and the past anew.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781803512525

Publisher: Granta Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 February 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Granta Books

Contributors:

  • Translated by Susan Bernofsky
  • Translated by Susan Bernofsky
  • Translated by Susan Bernofsky

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017). as well as Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections (2020). Her work is translated into over thirty languages.

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