Kairos
by Jenny Erpenbeck · 2008
Literary Fiction · ranked #235 in category
In late-1980s East Berlin, a young woman begins a relationship with an older, married writer — an affair that becomes a mirror for the slow-motion collapse of East Germany itself. Erpenbeck's International Booker Prize-winning novel is about love, control and the way personal and political history become inseparable when a state ends.
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