· The End of Days. ISBN Author: Jenny Erpenbeck. Publisher: Portobello Books. Guideline Price: £Pages: · In celebrated German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck’s latest work, The End of Days, we see fate and chance conspire in equal measure to push lives along their unpredictable but inevitably entropic journeys towards oblivion. After his mother’s death, a young boy asks, “I’m basically sharing my entire life . · The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck review – ‘only the inevitable is possible’. The protagonist dies more than once in a profound and exhilarating novel Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.
The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky 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 www.doorway.ru could it all have gone differently?—the narrator asks. The End of Days. Jenny Erpenbeck. Portobello Books, - Death - pages. 11 Reviews. A story of the twentieth century told through the various lives of one woman: an intoxicating masterpiece of a novel that kneads Time and History like dough. Who are we when we are born? Photo by Patrick Robert Doyle on Unsplash. Reading Jenny Erpenbeck is like a conscious psychosis. In Visitation, her story only takes two main c haracters, the house by the lake in Berlin who witnesses many phases of German history in the twentieth century with many people who inhabit the house and the Gardener who always tends the house throughout the story.
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. In celebrated German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck’s latest work, The End of Days, we see fate and chance conspire in equal measure to push lives along their unpredictable but inevitably entropic journeys towards oblivion. After his mother’s death, a young boy asks, “I’m basically sharing my entire life with my corpse?. The End of Days. ISBN Author: Jenny Erpenbeck. Publisher: Portobello Books. Guideline Price: £
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