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Kairos (Hardcover)
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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. Their passionate yet difficult long-running affair takes
place against the background of the declining GDR, through the
upheavals wrought by its dissolution in 1989 and then what comes
after. In her unmistakable style and with enormous sweep, Erpenbeck
describes the path of two lovers, as Katharina grows up and tries
to come to terms with a not always ideal romance, even as a whole
world with its own ideology disappears. As the Times Literary
Supplement writes: "The weight of history, the particular
experiences of East and West, and the ways in which cultural and
subjective memory shape individual identity has always been present
in Erpenbeck's work. She knows that no one is all bad, no state all
rotten, and she masterfully captures the existential bewilderment
of this period between states and ideologies." In the opinion of
her superbly gifted translator Michael Hofmann, Kairos is the great
post-Unification novel. And, as The New Republic has commented on
his work as a translator: "Hofmann's translation is invaluable-it
achieves what translations are supposedly unable to do: it is at
once 'loyal' and 'beautiful.'"
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