Descripción
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. The first chapter begins with the death of a baby in the early twentieth-century Hapsburg Empire. In the next chapter, the same girl grows up in Vienna after World War I, but a pact she makes with a young man leads to a second death. In the next scenario, she survives adolescence and moves to Russia with her husband. Both are dedicated Communists, yet our heroine ends up in a labor camp. But her fate does not end there....
A novel of incredible breadth and amazing concision, The End of Days offers a unique overview of the twentieth century.
Detalles
| Formato | Tapa suave |
| Número de Páginas | 320 |
| Lenguaje | Inglés |
| Editorial | New Directions Publishing Corporation |
| Fecha de Publicación | 2016-02-08 |
| Dimensiones | 7.9" x 5.3" x 0.7" pulgadas |
| Letra Grande | No |
| Con Ilustraciones | No |
| Temas | Dixon, Dixon, Judío, Judío, Judío, Judío |
Acerca del Autor
Bernofsky, Susan
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.Erpenbeck, Jenny
Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. New Directions publishes her books The Old Child & Other Stories, The Book of Words, and Visitation, which NPR called "a story of the century as seen by the objects we've known and lost along the way."Garantía & Otros
| Garantía: | 30 dias por defectos de fabrica |
| Peso: | 0.272 kg |
| SKU: | 9780811225137 |
| Publicado en Unimart.com: | 01/10/24 |
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