{"product_id":"9781783786138","title":"Kairos : Longlisted for the International Booker Prize","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Erpenbeck, Jenny (Y) \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 02\/05\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781783786138,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerlin. 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 the exertion of power. And the world around them is changing too: as the GDR begins to crumble, so too do all the old certainties and the old loyalties, ushering in a new era whose great gains also involve profound loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a prize-winning German writer, this is the intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42892762742828,"sku":"9781783786138","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781783786138.jpg?v=1711100257","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781783786138","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}