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. 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. Nov 15, 2014 exploring themes of time, memory, loss, and fate, the end of days builds on jenny erpenbecks already impressive body of work. Jenny erpenbecks the end of days is a beautiful meditation on the different possible lives of one woman, born a jewish child in the hapsburg empire. 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. Jenny erpenbecks the end of days wins independent foreign. Identity is one of the central questions of our age, addressed individually, culturally and. Buy a discounted paperback of the end of days online from australias leading online bookstore. Winner of the independent foreign fiction prize 2015, a chilling. The end of days, by jenny erpenbeck financial times. Dec 12, 2017 go, went, gone by jenny erpenbeck translated by susan bernofsky 286 pp. 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. A novelists powerful response to the refugee crisis.
Jenny erpenbeck, author of the end of days german author jenny erpenbeck s new novel grapples with the classic question. Like my fear of the future, she says, has not yet failed. The end of days tells the life story of a woman born into a jewish household in austrohungary at the start of the 20th century, or, as erpenbeck puts it, the life story of a woman in all her. The end of days by jenny erpenbeck, 9781846275159, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The end of days is the sixth book of fiction by the german writer, the fourth to be translated. Buy the end of days book online at low prices in india the. Aller tage abend the end of days by jenny erpenbeck. The end of days won the prestigious hans fallada prize and the international foreign fiction prize.
The end of days by jenny erpenbeck, paperback barnes. The end of days international dublin literary award. In jenny erpenbeck s masterly go, went, gone, a retired academic befriends asylumseekers in berlin. Winner of the independent foreign fiction prize and the hans fallada prize, the end of days, by the acclaimed german writer jenny erpenbeck, consists. Winner of the independent foreign fiction prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a new directions paperbackwinner of. The end of days by jenny erpenbeck 9781846275159 booktopia. This is the humanising lens through which jenny erpenbeck, europes outstanding literary seer, views our world. 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. The end of days builds on erpenbeck s already impressive body of work.
Winner of the independent foreign fiction prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a new directions paperbackwinner of the. Also on the programme, the winner of this years independent foreign fiction prize jenny erpenbeck discusses her novel the end of days, a moving and bleak portrait of 20th century germany seen. Sep 23, 2017 this is the humanising lens through which jenny erpenbeck, europes outstanding literary seer, views our world. A novelists powerful response to the refugee crisis the. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.
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. The end of days, erpenbeck s most recent novel, widens the canvas but retains the angle of vision. The day my grandfather was a hero by paulus hochgatterer. The end of days by jenny erpenbeck and susan bernofsky overview 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 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. 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. Jenny erpenbeck born 1967 is a german writer and opera director, recipient of the independent foreign fiction prize.
In her novel visitation 2008, erpenbeck captures a span of time reaching from the last ice age to the present by focusing on a tiny plot of land at a lake in brandenburg. The catastrophic consequences of this originary tragedy for the babys parents spin out only to wind up back where they started. All books are in clear copy here, and all files are secure so dont worry about it. 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. Her grandparents are the authors fritz erpenbeck and hedda zinner. Each section or book details the path her life could have taken, had history and fate not intervened. Jan 02, 2015 the end of days, by jenny erpenbeck, translated by susan bernofsky, portobello, rrp. 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. Jenny erpenbeck s the end of days is a beautiful meditation on the different possible lives of one woman, born a jewish child in the hapsburg empire. 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. In jenny erpenbeck s 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 erpenbeck, jenny y 9781846275159.
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. The end of days fiction 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. Jenny erpenbeck on the end of days the awardwinning german novelist is beloved by other acclaimed authors. 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. Go, went, gone by jenny erpenbeck world literature today.
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 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. 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. Its time for the reading public to know who she is too. But that wasnt right, because the lord had taken away much more than had been there to start with, and everything her child might have become was now lying there at the bottom of the pit, waiting to be covered. One needs courage to emerge from a jenny erpenbeck novel merely stirred to deeper contemplation and not to paranoia about the mysteries of metaphysics, and how haphazardly we human beings meet our fates. A novel of incredible breadth and amazing concision, the end of days offers a unique overview of the twentieth century. Buy the end of days by jenny erpenbeck from amazons fiction books store. An essay by boyd tonkin on jenny erpenbecks the end of days. The end of days by jenny erpenbeck the boston globe. The end of days by jenny erpenbeck, published by portobello, has won the independent foreign fiction prize erpenbeck, described by michel faber as one of the finest, most exciting authors. The end of days npr coverage of the end of days by jenny erpenbeck, translated by susan bernofsky. Buy the end of days book online at low prices in india.
In october 1944, a thirteenyearold girl arrives in a tiny farming community in lower austria, at some distance from the main theatre of war. Winner of the independent foreign fiction prize 2015, a chilling and profound tapestry woven through the agonies of 20th. The end of days by jenny erpenbeck bookforum magazine. Her latest novel, the end of days, imagines five deaths of a single person, a woman who remains unnamed.
Jenny erpenbeck, who in november 1989 was a theatre student at humboldt university in east berlin, answers the question in an autobiographical essay entitled. In this way erpenbeck reengages with one of the themes of her 2012 bestseller 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 novel charts richards progression from a disengaged and oblivious academic to a committed. Buy go, went, gone 9781846276224 by jenny erpenbeck for. 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. Death was not a moment but a front, he thinks, one that was as long as life.
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. At one point in jenny erpenbeck s remarkable novel, the end of days aller tage abend, a woman who is falling to her death thinks of how thinks of how, throughout her life, she had done things for the last time without knowing it. 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. May 28, 2015 buy the end of days by jenny erpenbeck from amazons fiction books store. 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. Born in east berlin, erpenbeck is the daughter of the physicist, philosopher and writer john erpenbeck and the arabic translator doris kilias. The end of days jenny erpenbeck delfi knjizare sve. Aug 04, 2014 jenny erpenbeck s aller tage abend the end of days is an excellent novel spanning the majority of the twentieth century. Interview with jenny erpenbeck by claudia steinberg the. 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 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.
Her writing is so powerful and so poetic and her storytelling so nuanced. 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 is a novel that pulls apart the threads of destiny and allows us to see the present and the past anew. It also taps into some of the key motifs of our postmodern.
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