Original Title: Aller Tage Abend
original edition
Hardcover with jacket,
288 pages,
13.5 x 21.5 cm,
5.3 x 8.5 Inches
ISBN: 978-3-8135-0369-2
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19.99 [D]
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20.60 [A]
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28.50*
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Publishing House:
Knaus
Date of publication:
August 20, 2012
This title is available.
Rights sold to:
Israel (Penn), Italy (Zandonai), The Netherlands (Van Gennep), UK/ CW (Portobello), US (New Directions)
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A journey through the many lives that could be contained in one life
How long will the life be of a child who is just being born? Who are we when our hour comes? Who will grieve for us?
In this novel, Jenny Erpenbeck steps at various moments through a human life in the 20th century. She takes a keen look at the points where the road branches off and where fundamentally decisive changes can take place. The main character in her novel dies as a child. Or perhaps not? Dies as a lover. Or doesn't after all. Dies betrayed. Highly honoured. Or forgotten by everyone. Or perhaps not?
The author takes us with her 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. Her writing is masterly and lively, and she tells us how what we call "fate" turns out to be an inexplicable interplay of culture and history, of family and personal entanglements.
"Jenny Erpenbeck’s broad and growing international readership will be thrilled by this latest novel."
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