Kairos
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Author
Contributors
Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25- translator.
Published
New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2023].
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Main Level - Fiction
FIC ERPENBECK, JENNY
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New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2023].
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"A New Directions book."
Description
"Jenny Erpenbeck (the author of Go, Went, Gone and Visitation) is an epic storyteller and arguably the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature. Erpenbeck's new novel Kairos-an unforgettably compelling masterpiece 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. 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 this period between states and ideologies." In the opinion of her superbly gifted translator Michael Hofmann, Kairos is the great post-Unification novel. And, as The New Republic has commented on his work as a translator: "Hofmann's translation is invaluable-it achieves what translations are supposedly unable to do: it is at once 'loyal' and 'beautiful.'""--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Erpenbeck, J., & Hofmann, M. (2023). Kairos . New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967- and Michael Hofmann. 2023. Kairos. New Directions Publishing Corporation.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Erpenbeck, Jenny, 1967- and Michael Hofmann. Kairos New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Erpenbeck, Jenny, and Michael Hofmann. Kairos New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2023.
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