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Book SynopsisWinner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperbackTrade Review"Words and stories and memory are the vehicle by which the reader moves, intoxicatingly and fearlessly, through a dizzying but magnificent series of terrains." -- Michele Filgate - The Boston Globe
"Wonderful, elegant and exhilarating, ferocious as well as virtuosic:
The End of Days is her most direct address to history." -- Deborah Eisenberg - The New York Review of Books
"One of the finest, most exciting authors alive." -- Michael Faber
"Dreamlike, almost incantatory prose." -- Vogue
"Beautiful and ambitious. Erpenbeck’s graceful prose suits the understated tone of this Hans Fallada Prize winner." -- Publishers Weekly, (starred review)
"The brutality of her subjects, combined with the fierce intelligence and tenderness at work behind her restrained, unvarnished prose, is overwhelming." -- Nicole Krauss
