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Kairos (Paperback)
Jenny Erpenbeck
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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.
Not a Novel is the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Moving
and insightful, the pieces range from personal essays and literary
criticism to reflections on Germany's history, interrogating life
and politics, language and freedom, hope and despair. By turns both
luminous and explosive, this collection shows one of the most
acclaimed European writers reckoning with her country's divided
past, and responding to the world today with intelligence and
humanity.
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Kairos (Hardcover)
Jenny Erpenbeck
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R434
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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.
By the side of a lake in Brandenburg, a young architect builds the
house of his dreams - a summerhouse with wrought-iron balconies,
stained-glass windows the colour of jewels, and a bedroom with a
hidden closet, all set within a beautiful garden. But the land on
which he builds has a dark history of violence that began with the
drowning of a young woman in the grip of madness and that grows
darker still over the course of the century: the Jewish neighbours
disappear one by one; the Red Army requisitions the house, burning
the furniture and trampling the garden; a young East German
attempts to swim his way to freedom in the West; a couple return
from brutal exile in Siberia and leave the house to their
granddaughter, who is forced to relinquish her claim upon it and
sell to new owners intent upon demolition. Reaching far into the
past, and recovering what was lost and what was buried, Jenny
Erpenbeck tells a story both beautiful and brutal, about the things
that haunt a home.
A child is found standing on the street with an empty bucket in her
hand and no memory of her name, her family or her past. Elsewhere,
a girl grows up surrounded by familiar faces - a wet nurse, a piano
teacher, a gardener, a best friend and a distant mother - but soon
finds them slipping mysteriously from her life. In the company of
these girls, we are compelled to tread the uncertain and spiky
terrain of memory, where words are dropped like clues to reveal
what has been hidden, forgotten or erased.
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The End of Days (Paperback)
Jenny Erpenbeck; Translated by Susan Bernofsky
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R224
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Winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize From one of
the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the
twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one
woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle. Or
perhaps not? She lives to become as an adult and dies beloved. Or
dies betrayed. Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured. Or she is
forgotten by everyone. Moving from a small Galician town at the
turn of the century, through pre-war Vienna and Stalin's Moscow to
present-day Berlin, Jenny Erpenbeck homes in on the moments when
life follows a particular branch and 'fate' suddenly emerges from
the sly interplay between history, character and pure chance. The
End of Days is a novel that pulls apart the threads of destiny and
allows us to see the present and the past anew.
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Go, Went, Gone (Paperback)
Jenny Erpenbeck; Translated by Susan Bernofsky
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One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's
biggest issue Richard has spent his life as a university professor,
immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired,
his books remain in their packing boxes and he steps into the
streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on Alexanderplatz, he discovers
a new community -- a tent city, established by African asylum
seekers. Hesitantly, getting to know the new arrivals, Richard
finds his life changing, as he begins to question his own sense of
belonging in a city that once divided its citizens into them and
us. At once a passionate contribution to the debate on race,
privilege and nationality and a beautifully written examination of
an ageing man's quest to find meaning in his life, Go, Went, Gone
showcases one of the great contemporary European writers at the
height of her powers.
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Kairos (Hardcover)
Jenny Erpenbeck; Translated by Michael Hofmann
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R556
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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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All for Nothing (Paperback)
Walter Kempowski; Translated by Anthea Bell; Introduction by Jenny Erpenbeck
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Go, Went, Gone (Paperback)
Jenny Erpenbeck; Translated by Susan Bernofsky
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All for Nothing (MP3 format, CD)
Walter Kempowski; Translated by Anthea Bell; Introduction by Jenny Erpenbeck; Translated by Susan Bernofsky; Read by Grover Gardner
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