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100 1  Erpenbeck, Jenny,|d1967-|eauthor. 
245 10 Kairos. /|cJenny Erpenbeck. 
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520    Jenny Erpenbeck's much anticipated new 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. 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 this 
       period between states and ideologies."   In the opinion of
       her superbly gifted translator Michael Hofmann, Kairos is 
       the great post-Unification novel. And, as The New Republic
       has commented on his work as a translator: "Hofmann's 
       translation is invaluable-it achieves what translations 
       are supposedly unable to do: it is at once 'loyal' and 
       'beautiful.'" 
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