The End of Days - Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky torrent

Category: Adults, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Germany

Written by Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky
Read by Lisa Flanagan
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Original publication date: 2012 (in German) / 2014 (English translation)
Audiobook release date: 2019
Publisher: Findaway/New Directions
Audiobook duration: 7:28:05

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The End of Days, by acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of an unnamed woman protagonist. How could it all have gone differently? the narrator asks in the intermezzos between. 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, but her strange relationship with a boy leads to another death. In the next scenario, she survives adolescence and moves to Russia with her husband. Both are dedicated Communists, but our heroine is sent to a labor camp. She is spared in the next chapter with the help of someone’s intervention and returns to Berlin to become a respected writer. . . .

Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.