Kairos, Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
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Kairos, Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
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Kairos
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Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann
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"Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of <i>Go, Went, Gone</i> and <i>Visitation</i>) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Her new novel, <i>Kairos</i> -- an unforgettably compelling masterpiece -- tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their long-running, passionate, yet difficult affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and what comes after. In her unmistakable style and with enormous sweep, Erpenbeck describes the path of the two lovers, as Katharina matures and tries to come to terms with their destructive romance, even as a whole world with its own ideology disappears." --Book jacket
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adult
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