Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann

Kairos

Übersetzer: Hofmann, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Norton
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 23853
• Seitenzahl: 293
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 136mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9780811238533
• ISBN-10: 0811238539
• Artikelnr.: 68897823

Autorenporträt

Jenny Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin in 1967. New Directions publishes her books The Old Child & Other Stories, The Book of Words, and Visitation , which NPR called "a story of the century as seen by the objects we've known and lost along the way."