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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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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.
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.
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The End of Days (Paperback)
Jenny Erpenbeck; Translated by Susan Bernofsky
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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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Kairos (Hardcover)
Jenny Erpenbeck; Translated by Michael Hofmann
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Jenny Erpenbeck’s much anticipated novel Kairos is a complicated love story set amidst swirling, cataclysmic events as the GDR collapses and an old world evaporates
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.
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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All for Nothing (Paperback)
Walter Kempowski; Translated by Anthea Bell; Introduction by Jenny Erpenbeck
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Visitation (Paperback, New)
Jenny Erpenbeck; Translated by Susan Bernofsky
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A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin
(once belonging to Erpenbeck s grandparents) is the focus of this
compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of
German history, from the nineteenth century to the Weimar Republic,
from World War II to the Socialist German Democratic Republic, and
finally reunification and its aftermath, Visitation offers the life
stories of twelve individuals who seek to make their home in this
one magical little house. The novel breaks into the everyday life
of the house and shimmers through it, while relating the passions
and fates of its inhabitants. Elegant and poetic, Visitation forms
a literary mosaic of the last century, tearing open wounds and
offering moments of reconciliation, with its drama and its
exquisite evocation of a landscape no political upheaval can truly
change."
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Go, Went, Gone (Paperback)
Jenny Erpenbeck; Translated by Susan Bernofsky
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