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Kairos

Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967-2023
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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.
Main title:
Kairos / Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.
Author:
Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967-, authorHofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25-, translator
Work:
Kairos
Imprint:
London : Granta, 2023.©2023
Collation:
293 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
"First published in the original German as Kairos by Penguin Verlag, Munich, in 2021"--Title page verso.Translated form the German.
ISBN:
9781783786121 (hbk)9781783786121 (hbk)9781783786121 (hardback)9781783786138 (paperback)
Dewey class:
833.92
LC class:
PT2665.R59
Language:
EnglishGerman
Added title:
Kairos. English
Subject:
Young women -- FictionMarried men -- FictionAdultery -- FictionMay-December romances -- Fiction
BRN:
769460
Bookmark link:
https://librarysearch.melbourne.vic.gov.au/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=769460
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