Johanna Skibsrud’s second novel, Quartet for the End Of Time, can be described as nothing less than monumental in the sheer breadth of events and subject matter it strives to cover. And if the reader is prepared to put in some work to keep track of the seemingly timeless interwoven, jarring and juxtaposing lives it covers then it will, at the end of the time it takes the reader to complete it, leave nothing less than a lasting impression.