The End of Days - Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky
Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky
Category: Novel
Narrator: Lisa Flanagan
Tags: Novel, Historical Fiction, Adults, Literature
Original publication date: 2012 (in German) / 2014 (English translation) Audiobook release date: 2019 Publisher: Findaway/New Directions Audiobook duration: 7:28:05, -, The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five books, each leading to a different death of 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 someones intervention and returns to Berlin to become a respected writer. . . ., Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.
