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

By:

Erpenbeck, Jenny, (1967 -)

Contributor(s):

Bernofsky, Susan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : New Direction Books , 2014, c2012Description: 239 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780811221924

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

FIC ERP

LOC classification:

PT2665.R59 A6413 2014b

Abstract: 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.

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First published in the original German in 2012 as Aller Tage Abend

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.

Translated from the German to English.

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