This is the first and only novel by Lydia Davis, winner of the Man Booker Intern
ational Prize 2013. 'It surprised me, over and over, to find that I was with suc
h a young man. He was twenty-two when I met him.
He turned twenty-three while
I knew him, but by the time I turned thirty-five I did not know where he was an
ymore.' Mislabelled boxes, confusing notes, wrong turnings - such are the obstac
les in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she organises
her memories of a love affair into a novel. With compassion, wit and what seems
to be candour, she seeks to determine what she actually knows about herself and
her past, but we begin to suspect, along with her, that given the elusiveness of
memory and understanding, any tale retrieved from the past must be fiction. Bac
k in print at last, this is Lydia Davis' first - and so far only - novel.
