Jenny Erpenbeck’s writing is a lure that leads us—off-center, as one travels into a vortex—into the most haunted and haunting territory.—Anne Michaels, Author of Fugitive Pieces
Jenny Erpenbeck: Nina SubinJenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. She is the author of several works of fiction, including The Book of Words (2007) and Visitation (2010), both translated by Susan Bernofsky and published by New Directions. The End of Days won the prestigious Hans Fallada Prize and the International Foreign Fiction Prize. Erpenbeck lives in Berlin.
Translated from the German by Kurt Beals
Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky
One of the pleasures of reading Not a Novel is just that—it’s not a novel. Each piece stands on its own and is dense and lucid, demanding pause and reflection….Her words stay with you.—World Literature Today
This collection of essays, memoirs and critical pieces forms an intellectual biography of Europe’s most history-obsessed writer. Beginning with her childhood in East Berlin in the early ‘60s and ‘70s, the book moves in concentric circles, from the intimate and understatedly moving to the moment History collides with her life. A powerful voice singing the past into the present’s melody.—John Freeman, Lithub
An ideal introduction to the life and work of an exceptional artist.—Kirkus
As this collection makes clear, hers is a life (and writing-life) well worth examining.—The Complete Review
The impact is of a master at work—Erpenbeck ought to be considered for the Nobel.—John Domini, The Washington Post
The most profound, intelligent, humane, and important writer of our times. Forget the nombrilistes writing about themselves who have taken up so much of the conversational space. Jenny Erpenbeck is where it is all happening. She watches, notes, records, and interprets the world, not just herself in it. This is real literature: alive, vital, necessary, witty, beautiful, transformative.—Neel Mukherjee
Fearless, playful, incisive. Erpenbeck is unique.—Rachel Seiffert
Wonderful, elegant, and exhilarating—ferocious as well as virtuosic.—Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books
Her restrained, unvarnished prose is overwhelming.—Nicole Krauss
Jenny Erpenbeck’s writing is a lure that leads us—off-center, as one travels into a vortex—into the most haunted and haunting territory.—Anne Michaels, Author of Fugitive Pieces
Beautifully haunting.—Interview Magazine
The plight of asylum seekers as told through a retired university professor…Very moving.—Carol Morely, Guardian 2018 Best Summer Books
Acclaimed German novelist Jenny Erpenbeck has gone further than most in examining the ephemeral nature of human life. A heart-rending plea for universal tolerance and respect.—The Big Issue
Erpenbeck’s prose, intense and fluent, is luminously translated by Susan Bernofsky.—James Wood, The New Yorker
Erpenbeck’s metaphysical fictions are strange and beautiful, stern and compelling. This devastating work is as light as a dream and as unrelenting as real life…No reader can feel untouched by Erpenbeck’s inspired, and inspiring, vision.—Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times
This slim novel packs a mighty punch and richly deserves its numerous accolades.—Lucy Popescu, The Huffington Post
The End of Days is a brilliant study of loss and mourning. … Erpenbeck’s novel chronicles the twentieth century in a way that other Familienromane do not.—Necia Chronister, World Literature Today
One of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation, Erpenbeck follows up the celebrated novel Visitation with a heady conceit located somewhere between Cloud Atlas and Groundhog Day—The Millions
Erpenbeck’s writing is a lure that leads us–off-centre, as into a vortex–into the most haunted and haunting territory.—Anne Michaels
Dreamlike, almost incantatory prose.—Vogue
The brutality of her subjects, combined with the fierce intelligence and tenderness at work behind her restrained, unvarnished prose, is overwhelming.—Nicole Krauss
A true miniaturist.—Jenny Hendrix, Bookforum
Visitation adds to her compact scenarios something intangible and enormous, which works on them from outside their modest frames with a force eroding human history and its claims to establish durable meaning.—The Nation
Erpenbeck will get under your skin.—Washington Post Book World
Jenny Erpenbeck is the rising star of the German literary scene.—Cosmopolitan
