Description: Now in paperback, Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos is a dramatic love story that unfolds as the GDR implodes--"an intimate account of obsessive, transgressive passion" (Claire Messud, Harper's)
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: A detailed, complicated and sometimes perverse six-year love affair tracks the growing maturity of the young woman, the moral decline of her lover and the last years of East Germany.--Steven Erlanger "The New York Times"