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Kairos (Ancient Greek: καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning 'the right or critical moment'. It also means time.And, it took a lot of time to read, ponder and then sum up my feelings for the novel by Jenny Erpenbeck.
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Kairos is a 2021 novel by German author Jenny Erpenbeck (East Berlin, 1967). The novel received Germany's Uwe Johnson Prize in 2022. [1] The English translation, by Michael Hofmann , published in the U.S. by New Directions and in the U.K. by Granta Books, was shortlisted for the U.S. National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2023 [2] and won the International Booker Prize in 2024.
Jan 16, 2021 · A historical fiction novel about two lovers in East Berlin before and after the fall of the wall. Read ratings, reviews, genres, book details and author information on Goodreads.
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Mar 11, 2024 · Reading guide: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann. Kairos, originally written in German, was the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024. A devastating story of the path of two lovers – a man in his fifties and a 19-year-old woman – through the ruins of a relationship, set against the tumult of East Berlin in the ...
May 29, 2023 · The first thing to know about Jenny Erpenbeck’s new novel, “Kairos,” is that it’s a wallow. I was in the mood for one. It’s a cathartic leak of a novel, a beautiful bummer, and the ...
Jun 6, 2023 · Jenny 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.
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Jun 20, 2023 · 'Kairos' review: Pain and pleasure do the tango in Jenny Erpenbeck's novel A young student in East Berlin falls in love with a much older writer in the run-up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is ...
