{"product_id":"the-end-of-daysbooks","title":"The End of Days","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWinner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe End of Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists essentially of five “books,” each leading to a different death of the same unnamed female protagonist. How could it all have gone differently?—the narrator asks in the intermezzos. 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 after World War I, but a pact she makes with a young man leads to a second death. In the next scenario, she survives adolescence and moves to Russia with her husband. Both are dedicated Communists, yet our heroine ends up in a labor camp. But her fate does not end there….\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Erpenbeck, Jenny","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (adult fiction)","offer_id":46359380000992,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/81tcKe4XxfL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1727117406","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-end-of-daysbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}