The End of Days
International Dublin Literary Award · 2016 · Shortlist
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Dublin Literary Award | 2016 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Jenny Erpenbeck's novel, translated from German by Susan Bernofsky, imagines five different possible endings for a woman's life in twentieth-century Europe, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to reunified Germany. Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.
About the Author
Jenny Erpenbeck is a German novelist and opera director born in East Berlin in 1967. She won the International Booker Prize in 2024 for *Kairos*, a novel about a love affair between a young East German woman and an older married man in the final years of the GDR. Her earlier novel *Go, Went, Gone*, about an African refugee's experience in Berlin, brought her wide international acclaim.
