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Kairos / Jenny Erpenbeck ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.

Summary:

"Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos 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 the 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."--Provided by publisher

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780811229340
  • ISBN: 0811229343
  • Physical Description: 293 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2023]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A New Directions book."
Original Version Note:
Originally published: Munchen : Penguin Verlag, 2021.
Subject: Young women > Fiction.
Married men > Fiction.
Adultery > Fiction.
Berlin (Germany) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
Non-consensual non-monogamy.
Non-monogamy.
Genre: Romance fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 2 copies available at Sage Library System. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Hood River County Library District.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Hood River County Library FIC ERPENBECK (Text) 33892100954958 Adult Fiction Checked out 05/14/2025

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500 . ‡a"A New Directions book."
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534 . ‡pOriginally published: ‡cMunchen : Penguin Verlag, 2021.
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