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The end of days / Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated by German by Susan Bernofsky.

by Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967-

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A New Directions Books, 2014.

Fate and fatalism -- Fiction.

Reincarnation -- Fiction.

Death -- Fiction.

Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.

Women -- Fiction.

Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Aller tage abend. England English

239 p. ; 21 cm.

Translation of : Aller Tage abend.

Translanted from the German.

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 20th 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.

Alternative histories (Fiction).

Linked stories.

German fiction -- Translations into English.

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