Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck

£16.99

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.

Hardback

Fiction > Fiction in translation

ISBN: 9781783786121

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.

 

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Weight 1 kg
Dimensions 25 × 17 × 8 cm