Kairos: Winner of the International Booker Prize Paperback – by Jenny Erpenbeck (Author), Michael Hofmann (Translator)

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Granta Books (14 June 2024)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1783786132
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1783786138
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 211 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.8 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024 ‘An ambitious story of love and betrayal’ – Irish Times ‘The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room — you’ll be reeling for days and weeks to come.’ – Neel Mukherjee 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.