The end of days jenny erpenbeck

Its a masterly piece of work susan osborne, a life in books astonishing and startlingly powerful in susan bernofsky. The end of days jenny erpenbeck, susan bernofsky isbn. Go, went, gone by jenny erpenbeck world literature today. Winner of the independent foreign fiction prize 2015, a chilling and profound tapestry woven. What if one choice, one event goes differently, and. The end of days is composed of five shorter books of roughly fifty pages each, separated by brief intermezzos in which the omniscient narrator interjects to show how actions taken or not taken lead to the same protagonist meeting a different end, and how the personal coincides with the political and historical. The end of days jenny erpenbeck translated by susan. Feb 08, 2016 jenny erpenbeck s novel the end of days, recently published in english, begins with a story at the grave site of a baby girl, and, while the grandmother accepts this death without questioning the why.

Winner of the independent foreign fiction prize 2015, a chilling and profound tapestry woven through the agonies of 20th. Winner of the independent foreign fiction prize 2015, a chilling. In this way erpenbeck reengages with one of the themes of her 2012 bestseller the end of days. The end of days npr coverage of the end of days by jenny erpenbeck, translated 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 prot.

He is a historian and novelist and has won numerous prizes, including the prestigious 3sat prize. A novel of incredible breadth and amazing concision, the end of days offers a unique overview of the twentieth century. Susan bernofskys translation of aller tage abend had been published in 2014 by new directions, had won major literary awards, and had received a plethora of accolades from critics across the globe. The end of days, by jenny erpenbeck financial times. Its time for the reading public to know who she is too. An essay by boyd tonkin on jenny erpenbecks the end of days. A novelists powerful response to the refugee crisis the. The novel charts richards progression from a disengaged and oblivious academic to a committed. The end of days 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.

The end of days international dublin literary award. The end of days, erpenbeck s most recent novel, widens the canvas but retains the angle of vision. Jenny erpenbeck, author of the end of days german author jenny erpenbeck s new novel grapples with the classic question. Dec 12, 2017 go, went, gone by jenny erpenbeck translated by susan bernofsky 286 pp. She is the author of several works of fiction, including the book of words 2007 and visitation 2010, both translated by susan bernofsky and published by new directions. Jenny erpenbeck on the end of days the awardwinning german novelist is beloved by other acclaimed authors. Identity is one of the central questions of our age, addressed individually, culturally and. Jan 02, 2015 the end of days, by jenny erpenbeck, translated by susan bernofsky, portobello, rrp. Her grandparents are the authors fritz erpenbeck and hedda zinner. She has worked on opera and musical productions and her fiction has been translated worldwide. Doron rabinovici was born in tel aviv and lives in vienna. Apr, 2015 this year the females have a lone work on the shortlist, and it is the end of days by jenny erpenbeck she was longlisted for her book the book of words in 2008 and made the shortlist in 2011 with visitation, all of her works on the lists being translated by susan bernofsky. Librarians comments what if this is the central question in jenny erpenbecks new novel the end of days.

Technically the end of days is watery and implied, a work of art, a piece of theatre. Winner of the independent foreign fiction prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a new directions paperback. The end of days is a compelling reminder that worrying about the unknowable will do nothing to delay the inevitable financial times a genuine european masterpiece tls books of the year the style of jenny erpenbeck has often been described as incantatory, and the end of days has the same dizzying emotional reach as her previous work. The end of days by jenny erpenbeck the boston globe. Feb 08, 2016 winner of the independent foreign fiction prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a new directions paperback 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. Buy the end of days book online at low prices in india the. Jenny erpenbeck, who in november 1989 was a theatre student at humboldt university in east berlin, answers the question in an autobiographical essay entitled. German author jenny erpenbecks new novel grapples with the classic question. Over the course of a long twentiethcentury life, from a jewish shtetl in galicia in the dying days of the austrohungarian empire to a berlin old peoples home in the postwall 1990s, the heroine meets death several times but declines to shake. Nov 15, 2014 exploring themes of time, memory, loss, and fate, the end of days builds on jenny erpenbecks already impressive body of work. 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. The end of days prises open the troubled box that is 20thcentury european history and entrenches erpenbeck s position as the most brilliant european writer of my generation neel mukherjee, book of the year, irish times. Jenny erpenbeck is the berlinbased author of several works of fiction, including the book of words, visitation and the end of days which recently won the hans fallada prize.

Sep 23, 2017 this is the humanising lens through which jenny erpenbeck, europes outstanding literary seer, views our world. In jenny erpenbecks latest novel, the end of days, words and stories and memory are the vehicle by which the reader moves, intoxicatingly and fearlessly, through a dizzying but. The end of days by jenny erpenbeck, 9781846275159, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The end of days by jenny erpenbeck bookforum magazine. Winner of the independent foreign fiction prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a new directions paperback 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.

Winner of the 2015 independent foreign fiction prize from one of the most daring voices. We start off in galicia, now the polandukraine border region, but at that time part of the austrohungarian empire, where a couple are mourning the death of their young daughter. Jenny erpenbecks wonderful the end of days opens with the death of an infant in 1902 near the eastern border of the austrohungarian. Jenny erpenbeck born 1967 is a german writer and opera director, recipient of the independent foreign fiction prize. Aller tage abend the end of days by jenny erpenbeck. 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 protagonist. In allowing possibility and chance to share a reality with certitude, whether that of death or of the 20th centurys upheaval, erpenbeck creates the possibility of a kind of creative. Erpenbeck is a theatre director and this is evident in her impressionistic approach. Erpenbecks previous book, the end of days 2014, again recounted twentiethcentury history, this time through the long life of a woman who could have inhabited most of its tormented. The end of days quotes showing 14 of 4 the lord gave, and the lord took away, her grandmother said to her at the edge of the grave. It also taps into some of the key motifs of our postmodern. Aug 04, 2014 jenny erpenbeck s aller tage abend the end of days is an excellent novel spanning the majority of the twentieth century. Sep 15, 2014 the end of days allows for a similar interpenetration of its narrative world by a world of the dead, enlivening the past with a host of potential presents.