The End of Days by Jenny Erpenbeck
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperback
"Words and stories and memory are the vehicle by which the reader moves, intoxicatingly and fearlessly, through a dizzying but magnificent series of terrains" -- Michele Filgate - The Boston Globe
"Wonderful, elegant and exhilarating, ferocious as well as virtuosic: The End of Days is her most direct address to history." -- Deborah Eisenberg - The New York Review of Books
"One of the finest, most exciting authors alive." -- Michael Faber
"Dreamlike, almost incantatory prose." -- Vogue
"Beautiful and ambitious. Erpenbeck’s graceful prose suits the understated tone of this Hans Fallada Prize winner." -- Publishers Weekly, (starred review)
"The brutality of her subjects, combined with the fierce intelligence and tenderness at work behind her restrained, unvarnished prose, is overwhelming." -- Nicole Krauss
"Wonderful, elegant and exhilarating, ferocious as well as virtuosic: The End of Days is her most direct address to history." -- Deborah Eisenberg - The New York Review of Books
"One of the finest, most exciting authors alive." -- Michael Faber
"Dreamlike, almost incantatory prose." -- Vogue
"Beautiful and ambitious. Erpenbeck’s graceful prose suits the understated tone of this Hans Fallada Prize winner." -- Publishers Weekly, (starred review)
"The brutality of her subjects, combined with the fierce intelligence and tenderness at work behind her restrained, unvarnished prose, is overwhelming." -- Nicole Krauss
An epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. She studied theater at the Humboldt University in Berlin and directed operas in the nineties. She is also author of such books as The Old Child & Other Stories, The Book of Words, and The End of Days. For New Directions, Susan Bernofsky has translated Yoko Tawada’s Where Europe Begins, The Naked Eye, and Memoirs of a Polar Bear (winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation), eight titles by the great Swiss-German modernist Robert Walser, and five books by Jenny Erpenbeck, including The End of Days (winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize). She is the author of Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser, and teaches at Columbia University, where she also directs the literary translation program.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780811225137 |
| ISBN 10 | 0811225135 |
| Title | The End of Days |
| Author | Jenny Erpenbeck |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2016-03-08 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for International Dublin Literary Award 2016 |
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