The End of Days Ekow Eshun and a radical new guide

and a radical new guide to achieving greatness

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A pioneer whose creative output was predicated on a fundamental questioning of what art is

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The End of Days Ekow Eshun and a radical new guideA story of the twentieth century told through the various lives of one woman: an intoxicating masterpiece of a novel that kneads time and history like dough. Jenny Erpenbeck is a German writer who won the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The End of Days and the 2024 International Booker Prize for Kairos. Who are we when we are born? Who are we when the hour of our death comes? What changes? What remains? By tracing the five possible lives