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Item Details
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THE END OF DAYS
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| By: |
Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£12.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
184627513X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846275135 |
| Publisher: |
GRANTA BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
6 November, 2014 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
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 |
| Synopsis: |
'We are born and we die - but many things could happen in between. Which life do we end up living?' 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 survives beyond her first breath, and suffocates in the cradle. Or perhaps not? She lives to become as 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. Fully alive with ambition and ideas, 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. |
| Illustrations: |
illustrations (black and white) |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Portobello Books Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2016.
Winner of Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2015.
Winner of Hans Fallada-Preis 2013.
Shortlisted for International Dublin Literary Award 2016.
Shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2015. |
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Returnable |
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