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Kairos (International Booker Prize Winner)

By Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (Translator)
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By Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (Translator)
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Will you come to my funeral? Erpenbeck's story of a long-running love affair (winner of the International Booker Prize and longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature) appeals to readers of Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux (A Simple Passion, The Years) and Claire Messud's latest, This Strange Eventful History.

Now in paperback, Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is a dramatic love story that unfolds as the GDR implodes—“an intimate account of obsessive, transgressive passion” (Claire Messud, Harper’s)

WINNER OF THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSE

An epic storyteller with the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck has created an unforgettably compellin...

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