Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. Michael Hofmann

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. Michael HofmannBerlin. 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

and the meaning of history and home

Lea offers readers a layered

putting ourselves through rebranded versions of the exact same thing

sisters Emily Nagoski

Undogmatic and refreshingly open-minded

an anger she understood

she and the band were a sensation

without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills)

photographers and authors over a period of decades

In the creation of any new society

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