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Kairos

Written by: Jenny Erpenbeck
Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024

'An ambitious story of love and betrayal' - Irish Times
'The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room -- you'll be reeling for days and weeks to come.' - Neel Mukherjee

Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fueled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her and a dangerous crack forms between them, opening up a space for cruelty, punishment and the exertion of power. And the world around them is changing too: as the GDR begins to crumble, so too do all the old certainties and the old loyalties, ushering in a new era whose great gains also involve profound loss.

From a prize-winning German writer, this is the intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history.

©2023 Jenny Erpenbeck (P)2023 New Directions Publishing Corp. Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Women's Fiction World Literature
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Outstanding. Really got into the story' tone. I like the narration of the story very much. Also I would recommend this audiobook as its the best audio version the book itself.

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The audio volume is too low. I couldn't hear it clearly even at full volume. The narrator is quite flat and lacks intonation. The story is drab, pointless, meandering, unnecessarily pretentious, and all over the place. I hated every moment of this.

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