Kairos

'An ambitious story of love and betrayal' - Irish Times'The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room -- you'll be reeling for days and weeks to come.' - Neel MukherjeeBerlin. 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jenny Erpenbeck, Jenny (Y) Erpenbeck
• Mitarbeit: Michael Hofmann (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Granta Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781783786121
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-612-1
• Abmessung: 145 mm x 225 mm x 30 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur