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INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2024
Berlin, July 1986. Katarina and Hans meet by chance on a bus. She is a nineteen-year-old student, he is a married writer in his fifties. They are taken by surprise by the attraction that overwhelms them, something mutual and intense, something that gradually intensifies through their shared interest in music and art, something that inevitably deepens and binds them even more precisely because this relationship must remain secret.
Until she slips into a nocturnal indiscretion, he cannot forgive her and a dangerous rift begins to form between them. Against the backdrop of the crumbling German Democratic Republic and the radical changes that followed, Jenny Erpenbeck, with her distinctive and penetrating language, speaks of the abyss of happiness, of the journey of two lovers in the liminal space between truth and falsehood, obsession and violence, hatred and hope. Everything in their lives, at the very moment it happens, transforms into something that has already been lost. The dividing line is always just one moment.
The novel that rightfully received the International Booker Prize 2024. "With her brilliant style, Jenny Erpenbeck highlights the complexity of the relationship between a young woman and a much older man, observing the daily tensions and subversive turns that mark their intimacy [...]. Here everything begins with excitement and passion, yet is also connected with power, art, and culture. The self-centered absorption of the two lovers in what happens to them and then their descent into a shared destructive spiral are elements intertwined with the broader history of the German Democratic Republic during that period [...]. What makes the narrative of Time an unusual and rare one is that it is a novel that makes you feel both beautiful and uncomfortable at the same time, that it is a book personal and political equally. The author guides readers to make connections between events that defined entire generations and a disastrous, brutal love affair, while also raising questions about the nature of fate and free will. Like the GDR, this particular relationship begins with optimism and trust, but over time it frays and disintegrates." Notable insight from the jury of the International Booker Prize 2024.
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- Author
- Jenny Erpenbeck
- Publisher
- Ekdoseis Kastanioti
- Publishers
- Kastaniotis Editions
- Skroutz Book Awards 2026
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- Type
- Prose
- Subtitle
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- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
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- Release Date
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- Publication Date
- 2024
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- ISBN-13
- 9789600373219
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