Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (translator) and others better

and others better

Translated from the Spanish by Emecé Editores

Roop is a young girl whose mother has died and whose father is deep in debt

When you spend your life saving others

experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (translator) and others better*Used very good condition Published by Granta Publications 2023 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