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by Jenny Erpenbeck
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (Translator)Publish date:5/14/2024Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811238533ISBN-10:811238539UPC:9780811238533Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, WomenBook Topic:GermanyAward:2023 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation Award|2024 Man Booker International Prize Winner - Fiction AwardSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC37KZTQTV

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 compelling masterpiece with Kairos. The story of a romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s: the passionate yet difficult long-running affair of Katharina and Hans hits the rocks as a whole world--the socialist GDR--melts away. 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 his period between states and ideologies."

In the opinion of her superbly gifted translator Michael Hofmann, Kairos is the great post-Unification novel.

Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811238533ISBN-10:811238539UPC:9780811238533Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Literary, WomenBook Topic:GermanyAward:2023 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation Award|2024 Man Booker International Prize Winner - Fiction AwardSize:8.00 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SC37KZTQTV
Hofmann, Michael: - The award-winning translator Michael Hofmann has also translated works by Jenny Erpenbeck, Gert Hofmann, Franz Kafka, Heinrich von Kleist, and Joseph Roth for New Directions. His translation of Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck was awarded the International Booker Prize in 2024.Erpenbeck, Jenny: -

An epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. She studied theater at the Humboldt University in Berlin and directed operas in the nineties. She is also author of such books as The Old Child & Other Stories, The Book of Words, and The End of Days.

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Awards

🏆 2023 National Book Awards Nominee - Translation Award|2024 Man Booker International Prize Winner - Fiction Award

Contributor(s)

Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (Translator)

Author

Jenny Erpenbeck

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