International Booker Prize 2024: German win for Kairos
Source: BBC
German writer Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann have won the International Booker Prize.Their novel Kairos follows the destructive love affair between a 19-year-old student and a married man in his 50s who meet on a bus in East Berlin around 1986.Their relationship comes to embody the German Democratic Republic's "crushed idealism" and eventual "dissolution of a whole political system".They will…
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