Kairos
#554 of 8,085 books · #138 in Crime & Thriller
Won the International Booker Prize (2024).
Kairos won the 2024 International Booker Prize. A dramatic love story that unfolds as the GDR implodes, Kairos tells the story of a romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s: the passionate yet difficult long-running affair of Katharina and Hans hits the rocks as a whole world—the socialist GDR—melts away.
- Publisher
- Granta
- ISBN-13
- 9780811238533
- Topics
- Obsessive love and affairFall of the GDR and German reunificationIdentity amid political upheaval
Awards
- International Booker PrizeWonMajor(2024)
Other awarded books from Jenny Erpenbeck
- The End of Days (2014)0 wins · 4 score
- Go, Went, Gone (2017)0 wins · 2 score
If you liked Kairos, you could also like these
The End of Days
Jenny Erpenbeck
0 wins · 4 score
Love Novel
Ivana Sajko
0 wins · 4 score
Go, Went, Gone
Jenny Erpenbeck
0 wins · 2 score
The Details
Ia Genberg
0 wins · 4 score
The Lady from Zagreb
Philip Kerr
0 wins · 3 score
The Director
Daniel Kehlmann
0 wins · 4 score
Willenbrock
Christoph Hein
0 wins · 4 score
The Man Who Saw Everything
Deborah Levy
0 wins · 2 score
Kairos
Gwyneth Jones
0 wins · 6 score
Die, My Love
Ariana Harwicz
0 wins · 2 score
The Most Dazzling Girl in Berlin
Kip Wilson
0 wins · 2 score
Brandenburg
Henry Porter
1 win · 5 score
The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk
0 wins · 7 score
Perfection
Vincenzo Latronico
0 wins · 4 score
Good Girl
Aria Aber
0 wins · 4 score