Description: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann From an internationally acclaimed, multi award-winning author: this is a story of love and betrayal set in Berlin during the years before and after the fall of the Wall. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Berlin. 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. Author Biography Jenny Erpenbeck is the author of The Old Child & The Book of Words (2008), Visitation (2010) and The End of Days (2014, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize), and Go, Went, Gone (2017). as well as Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections (2020). Her work is translated into over thirty languages. Review Erpenbeck has proved time and again that she is a fearless, astute examiner of a countrys soul... Kairos powerfully examines individual as well as collective history * Economist *An ambitious story of love and betrayal * Irish Times *Carefully structured and [...] emotionally resonant... As ever with Erpenbeck, history makes mincemeat of those swept along in its wake: which is to say, all of us. Kairos furthers the conviction that Erpenbeck is a dead cert for a future Nobel prize * Guardian *A subtle, richly layered, densely allusive and hugely ambitious novel... Kairos is an impressive achievement that has deepened my admiration for Erpenbecks talent for weaving into her fiction clashes of ideology and convulsions of history * Spectator *An extraordinary story of twisted love that unspools in East Berlin during the last years of the GDR... Like all the best allegories, Kairos cannot be reduced to a single, unambiguous message. Kairos is an autopsy of those broken bonds that you were sure would last forever * Sunday Telegraph *A new book from German author Jenny Erpenbeck is always worthy of note and Kairos is no exception... This is Erpenbeck at her brilliant best. One of the great fictional chroniclers of modern Europe * New European *Erpenbeck is a writer with a roving, furious, brilliant mind. Kairos bears with it the absolute urgency of existential questions... Erpenbecks handling of characters caught within the mesh (and mess) of history is superb. * Los Angeles Times *Erpenbeck is among the most sophisticated and powerful novelists we have. Clinging to the undercarriage of her sentences, like fugitives, are intimations of Germanys politics, history and cultural memory. Its no surprise that she is already bruited as a future Nobelist * New York Times *Kairos is one of the bleakest and most beautiful novels I have ever read * Guardian *Stylishly translated by Michael Hofmann, this is a finely calibrated book... Erpenbecks subtle use of mirroring reflects the unbreakable links that remained between East and West Germany * Observer *An intimate account of obsessive, transgressive passion. Erpenbeck writes masterfully about time * Harpers *Heres an early contender for novel of the year... Theres jealousy, deception, surveillance, cruelty. Pulsing with emotion, its a beautiful, upsetting work * Telegraph *Kairos effectively captures the generational divide in Germany at the time of reunification... The end of the affair is a clever analogue for the demise of the socialist experiment * Financial Times *Revelling in complexity and ambiguity, Erpenbeck knows that no one is all bad, no state all rotten, and she masterfully captures... existential bewilderment -- Anna Katharina Schaffner * TLS *In Erpenbeck, Germany has a rare national writer whose portrayals of a ruptured country and century are a reminder that novelists can treat history in ways that neither historians nor politicians ever could, cutting through dogma, fracturing time, preserving rubble... Erpenbecks novels point us beyond her nations particular convulsions; they are about capturing what humans leave behind as other humans follow them-the ruins we must live with, even as they molder * Atlantic *This clever narrative offers an uncomfortable allegory of life under the Stasi, and the finale packs a punch * Daily Mail *Erpenbeck...weaves together her story of loss, lies and betrayal (in both the personal and political spheres) with tremendous skill; artfully translated by Michael Hofmann * Collagerie *In this granular and, at times, shockingly intimate narrative of an all-consuming love affair that ultimately turns abusive, Jenny Erpenbeck has written an allegory of her nation, a country that has ceased to exist -- East Germany. No writer on the world stage can make the texture and details of individual lives articulate so seamlessly and unobtrusively the way humans are subjects of, and subjected to, history. The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room -- youll be reeling for days and weeks to come. -- Neel MukherjeeHow calmly, and with what certainty, Jenny Erpenbeck invents love... Katharina and Hans narrate their own seduction, their voices sliding past each other in Erpenbecks exquisite ink... Theirs is the kind of passion that bursts open like a soft fruit dropped onto a hard floor, but Erpenbeck makes you believe in it... An elegant novel * The Times *Kairos [...] swiftly takes the reader back in time... Erpenbecks narrative soon turns dark, weaving personal and political with a deft hand * Radio Times *Kairos is a fearsomely symmetrical novel... Its a novel that comes as close as fiction can allow to representing the shared or double consciousness that arises when we fall in love... profoundly involving * Literary Review *[Erpenbeck] writes confident, sexy sentences... The novels political allegory is smarter than most * The Times and Sunday Times *[A] rigorously beautiful novel * Telegraph *[Kairos] affected me greatly... it has really stayed with me * Irish Independent * Promotional From an internationally acclaimed, multi award-winning author: this is a story of love and betrayal set in Berlin during the years before and after the fall of the Wall. Details ISBN1783786132 Author Michael Hofmann Pages 304 Publisher Granta Books Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781783786138 Format Paperback Imprint Granta Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 833.92 Audience General Translator Michael Hofmann Publication Date 2024-05-21 UK Release Date 2024-05-21 NZ Release Date 2024-05-21 ISBN-10 1783786132 Subtitle Winner of the International Booker Prize We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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