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5 days ago · When, for the 2024 International Booker winner, Kairos, Jenny Erpenbeck delves into her own diaries from younger days to bring to life a tumultuous period in German, particularly East German, history, through the micro-narrative of an implausible, sadomasochistic, exasperatingly claustrophobic love story, she knows that she is lending voice to a repressed history shared by millions for whom their vanished country is still alive in memory.
Jul 7, 2024 · Six Degrees of Separation: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck. First Saturday of the month, time for the super monthly tag Six Degrees of Separation, which is hosted by Kate at Booksaremyfavouriteandbest, Six Degrees of Separation #6degrees picks a starting book for participants to go wherever it takes them in six more steps.
“An expertly braided novel about the entanglement of personal and national transformations, set amid the tumult of 1980s Berlin. Kairos unfolds around a chaotic affair between Katharina, a 19-year-old woman, and Hans, a 53-year-old writer in East Berlin. Erpenbeck’s narrative pro
Jul 16, 2024 · Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck. Posted by Kate W in Fiction and tagged with 2024, book review, fiction, German, historical, Jenny Erpenbeck, review, translated July 16, 2024. Two things about Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck before I get into the nitty-gritty: 1. Didn’t love the ending – the last third of the novel flagged in terms of energy.
Jul 3, 2024 · 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.
Jul 18, 2024 · Jenny Erpenbeck is tipped as a future Nobel prize winner. Photo / Getty Images / supplied. Katharina, 19, exchanges looks, a smile, with a middle-aged man on a bus in 1986 East Berlin.
Jul 6, 2024 · This month’s #6Degrees, hosted by Kate from Books are my Favourite and Best starts with Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann.
