Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ is, for better or worse, incredibly chaotic. Winner of the International Booker Prize 2024.
6/10
Kairos: 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, 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.
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Thanks for watching, and remember: Hans did a lot of whinging for an octogenarian.
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Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘Kairos’ is, for better or worse, incredibly chaotic. Winner of the International Booker Prize 2024.
6/10
Kairos: 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, 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.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/thediscoking
Thanks for watching, and remember: Hans did a lot of whinging for an octogenarian.
#internationalbookerprize #bookerprize #booktube #bookreview #kairos
