E. Shaver Starland is located in the Gingerbread House right next to Foxy Loxy Cafe and hosts events throughout the month. Enjoy the Foxy Beverage Bar in the bookstore for tea, coffee, beer and wine!
Join for discussion on Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck.
Now in paperback, Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos is a dramatic love story that unfolds as the GDR implodes ― “an intimate account of obsessive, transgressive passion” (Claire Messud, Harper’s ) An epic storyteller with the most powerful voice in contemporary German literature, Jenny Erpenbeck has created an unforgettably compelling masterpiece with Kairos . The story of a romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980 the passionate yet difficult long-running affair of Katharina and Hans hits the rocks as a whole world―the socialist GDR―melts away. As the Times Literary Supplement “The weight of history, the particular experiences of East and West, and the ways in which cultural and subjective memory shape individual identity has always been present in Erpenbeck’s work. She knows that no one is all bad, no state all rotten, and she masterfully captures the existential bewilderment of his period between states and ideologies.” In the opinion of her superbly gifted translator Michael Hofmann, Kairos is the great post-Unification novel.
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