Kairos
Jenny Erpenbeck
Literary Fiction
Kairos
by Jenny Erpenbeck
—· 358 p· 2021
Booker Prizereflectivehauntingphilosophical
Overview
About
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)
Pages
358
New Directions
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Prose9
Emotional depth9
Historical Resonance9
Psychological Intimacy9
Narration8
Pacing6
Worldbuilding5
Plot twists4
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