Jenny Erpenbeck Kairos (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: KairosCondition: NewISBN-10: 0811238539EAN: 9780811238533ISBN: 9780811238533Publisher: New Directions Publishing CorporationFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/14/2024Description: WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSE An epic storyteller with the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck has created an unforgettably compelling masterpiece with Kairos. The story of a romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s: the passionate yet difficult long-running affair of Katharina and Hans hits the rocks as a whole world—the socialist GDR—melts away. As the Times Literary Supplement writes: “The weight of history, the particular experiences of East and West, and the ways in which cultural and subjective memory shape individual identity has always been present in Erpenbeck’s work. She knows that no one is all bad, no state all rotten, and she masterfully captures the existential bewilderment of his period between states and ideologies.” In the opinion of her superbly gifted translator Michael Hofmann, Kairos is the great post-Unification novel.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 137mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 289gAuthor: Jenny ErpenbeckTranslator: Michael HofmannContributor: Michael Hofmann (Translated by)Genre: FictionRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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