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Title: Kairos: 2024 International Booker Prize winner
Author: ERPENBECK JENNY
Illustrator: HOFMANN MICHAEL (TR)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 21/05/2024
Imprint: GRANTA
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9781783786138
Weight: 211g
Dimension: 198mm X 128mm
Pages: 304
Edition: 01