Kairos

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024'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.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Erpenbck, Jenny Erpenbeck, Erpenbeck Jenny
• Assisted by: Michael Hofman (Translation), Michael Hofmann (Translation)
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2024
• EAN: 9781783786138
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-613-8
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Fiction in translation, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, The Cold War, West Germany, East Germany, Ddr, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary