Kairos

RM75.90

Author: Jenny Erpenbeck (Author), Michael Hofmann (Translator)
ISBN: 9781783786138
Format: B-Format Paperback
Publisher: Granta Books

In stock

SKU: 9781783786138 Categories: , Tag:

Description

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024

‘An ambitious story of love and betrayal’ – Irish Times
‘The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room — you’ll be reeling for days and weeks to come.’ – Neel Mukherjee

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.