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020			_a9781783786138
082			_a833.92 ERP
100			_aErpenbeck, Jenny
245			_aKairos
260			_aLondon: _bGranta, _c2024.
300			_a293p.: _bpbk.: _c20cm.
520			_aJenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck’s new novel Kairos—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 passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes place against the background of the declining GDR, through the upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes after. In her unmistakable style and with enormous sweep, Erpenbeck describes the path of the two lovers, as Katharina grows up and tries to come to terms with a not always ideal romance, even as a whole world with its own ideology disappears. 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 this period between states and ideologies.” https://www.ndbooks.com/book/kairos/
650			_aFiction
650			_aDecember Romance
650			_aYoung Women
650			_aAdultery
650			_aLove and Betrayal
650			_aNovel
700			_aHofmann, Michael _eTranslator
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