[An] absolute must-read. It has stunned and moved everyone who has read it -- Arifa Akbar - Independent Published On: 2015-06-13

A short, musical novel... philosophically and technically ambitious... shot through with an insight that almost blinds... Erpenbeck's Chekhovian talent for letting us into the shifting consciousness of her characters' various incarnations is such that with each death our loss feels definitive. But while in Chekhov there are no exits from personality, here there are no exits from history... Reading Erpenbeck is like falling under hypnosis. Exhilarating -- Kapka Kassabova - Guardian Published On: 2014-11-29

Always startling and profound, Jenny Erpenbeck is a master of allegory. Few contemporary writers can so deftly paint the moral interplay between light and shadow -- Chloe Aridjis

Concise and moving... Jenny Erpenbeck makes swift work of the one-life-multiple-outcomes conceit touched on by Kate Atkinson and David Mitchell - and is the best of the bunch -- Tim Martin 'Books of the Year' - Daily Telegraph Published On: 2014-11-22

Erpenbeck has honed an extraordinary gift for focusing the sweep of European history into intimate moments, captured in prose of a haunting beauty and tenderness. Hypnotically involving -- Boyd Tonkin - Independent Published On: 2014-11-08

The End of Days prises open the troubled box that is 20th-century European history and entrenches [Erpenbeck's] position as the most brilliant European writer of my generation -- Neel Mukherjee ‘Book of the Year’ - Irish Times Published On: 2014-12-06

A genuine European masterpiece -- Roy Foster, Books of the Year - TLS Published On: 2015-11-27

Startling and profound -- Justine Jordan ‘Fiction Book of the Year’ - Guardian Published On: 2014-12-06

Erpenbeck's writing is so powerful and so poetic, her storytelling so nuanced. [She] has important things to tell us; and she tells them beautifully. Masterful -- Will Gore - Independent on Sunday Published On: 2014-11-15

In Erpenbeck's world, everything is connected... through tiny parallels and repetitions - elusive leitmotifs that echo across the protagonist's alternate lives... The wisdom of this novel lies in the way its form subtly subverts death's permanence -- David Winters - Literary Review

If you think this sounds like Kate Atkinson's Life After Life, think again. Moving [and] involving... its effects are arrived at in a very different way from what we have come to expect from the Anglo-American novel -- David Mills - Sunday Times Published On: 2014-11-23

A wonderfully crafted, memorable read - New Internationalist Published On: 2014-11-22

Compactly lyrical... Erpenbeck [has] condensed a century of European history into the turning-points of a woman's life -- Boyd Tonkin ‘Fiction in trans