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Kairos
Jenny Erpenbeck
- Faber & Faber
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Publisher | Faber & Faber |
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ISBN | 9781783786138 |
Publication date | July 2024 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 198 x 128 mm |
Pages | 304 |
Language(s) | English ed. |
extra information | Winner of the International Booker Prize |
Publisher | ISBN 9781783786121 (Hb) |
Description
Winner of the International Booker Prize
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, punishment and the exertion of power. And the world around them is changing too: as the GDR begins to crumble, so too do all the old certainties and the old loyalties, ushering in a new era whose great gains also involve profound loss.
From a prize-winning German writer, this is the intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history.