{"product_id":"jenny-erpenbeck-kairos-2023-hardback","title":"Jenny Erpenbeck: Kairos [2023] hardback","description":"'An ambitious story of love and betrayal' - Irish Times\u003cbr\u003e'The ending is like a bomb thrown into your room -- you'll be reeling for days and weeks to come.' - Neel Mukherjee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBerlin. 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, fuelled 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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.","brand":"Erpenbeck, Jenny \u0026 Hofmann, Michael","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50628553474387,"sku":"XV81783786121","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":46674067423571,"sku":"9781783786121","price":20.3,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":50544183574867,"sku":"XG81783786121","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/erpenbeck-jenny-hofmann-michael-jenny-erpenbeck-kairos-2023-hardback-9781783786121-58540793954643.jpg?v=1742639722","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/jenny-erpenbeck-kairos-2023-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}