No Substance #217: Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is an excellent novel. It’s well written (and well translated from German by Michael Hofmann), well constructed, and well conceived. Sometimes, though, I wished I liked it a bit more.
Kairos is framed around the relationship between Katharina and Hans. The two of them meet in the 1980s, when Katharina is 19, and Hans is 53. They …
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