Kairos
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.
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- Granta
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN-13
- 9780811238533
- Genre
- FictionCrime & Thriller
- Topics
- Obsessive love and affairFall of the GDR and German reunificationIdentity amid political upheaval
Awards
- International Booker PrizeWonMajor(2024)
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