Love to delve into a good piece of literature and enjoy in-depth interactive discussions? Discuss Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, which tells 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 the socialist GDR melts away. The weight of history, the 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.
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