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.
A novel of incredible breadth and amazing concision, The End of Days offers a unique overview of the twentieth century..
But her fate does not end there....
Both are dedicated Communists, yet our heroine ends up in a labor camp.
In the next scenario, she survives adolescence and moves to Russia with her husband.
In the next chapter, the same girl grows up in Vienna after World War I, but a pact she makes with a young man leads to a second death.
The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire.
How could it all have gone differently?--the narrator asks in the intermezzos.
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
