A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck s grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic, from World War II to the Socialist German Democratic Republic, and finally reunification and its aftermath, Visitation offers the life stories of twelve individuals who seek to make their home in this one magical little house. The novel breaks into the everyday life of the house and shimmers through it, while relating the passions...
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck s grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful...
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, 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...
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Hans Fallada Prize, The End of Days, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbe...
Rein zufällig kommt Richard auf dem Berliner Oranienplatz in Kontakt mit jungen Asylsuchenden, die dort protestieren, denn: Sie dürfen nicht arbeiten. Bis ihre Anträge bewilligt sind, zwingt sie das Gesetz zur Untätigkeit. Doch wie lassen sich die andauernde Wartezeit und der Stillstand ertragen? Was trieb diese Menschen dazu, unter Lebensgefahr ihre Heimat zu verlassen, ein neues Leben in Europa zu suchen?
Richard sucht die Begegnung mit den jungen Afrikanern und Antworten auf seine Fragen. Der Beginn einer erstaunlichen, bewegenden und auch konfliktreichen Annäherung zweier Welten.
Rein zufällig kommt Richard auf dem Berliner Oranienplatz in Kontakt mit jungen Asylsuchenden, die dort protestieren, denn: Sie dürfen nicht arbeite...
