{"product_id":"the-end-of-days","title":"The End of Days","description":"\u003cp\u003eA story of the twentieth century told through the various lives of one woman: an intoxicating masterpiece of a novel that kneads Time and History like dough. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Who are we when we are born? Who are we when the hour of our death comes? What changes? What remains? By tracing the five possible lives lived and the five deaths of one woman whose life spans, or fails to span, the twentieth century, the magical, magisterial author of Visitation exposes the machinations of what we call 'fate' - actually inexplicable and undetermined, an interplay of culture and history, of family and personal entanglements. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The protagonist never grows up, suffocates in her cradle. Or perhaps not? Dies as a lover. Or doesn't after all. Dies betrayed. Highly honoured. Or forgotten by everyone. Or perhaps not? Erpenbeck takes us on a journey through the many lives that could be contained in one single life - starting off in a small Galician town in about 1900 and going to Vienna and Stalin's Moscow before ending up in present-day Berlin. She interrogates the impact of the political on the personal, and as she tackles this theme she draws on a uniquely German narrative impetus: the ongoing need to reckon with its past and its place in recent history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/jenny-erpenbeck-books\"\u003eJenny Erpenbeck\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 239\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Portobello Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781846275135\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Portobello Books","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £2.35","offer_id":47917754286257,"sku":"SB-184627513X-C4","price":2.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/184627513X.jpg?v=1789216333","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-end-of-days","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}